My friend and colleague, Quintin Barry, who has died aged 88, was for many years one of the UK’s leading employment lawyers.
Although instinctively on the side of employees, his reputation meant that he was also in demand to represent employers, and over the years he was retained by a number of big organisations.
In the 1970s he acted for Sussex cricket club in cases brought by the Test and County Cricket Board against two Sussex players, John Snow and Imran Khan, and he was also involved in a high court case challenging a ban imposed on England cricketers who had signed up to Kerry Packer’s renegade World Series competition.
Outside the legal sphere he had an avid interest in politics, standing as a Labour parliamentary candidate on four occasions in his native Sussex, though each time unsuccessfully. He also became a prolific author on military history, writing 19 books on the subject.
Quintin was born in Worthing, West Sussex, to Garrett, an insurance manager, and Elizabeth (nee Ash). Educated at Eastbourne college, in 1953 he left school to train as an articled clerk at a Brighton law firm, Johnson, Mileham & Scatliff, qualifying in 1958. Afterwards he spent two years as an assistant solicitor at Cronin & Son, in London, until returning to his original firm in 1960.
He became a partner there in 1962 and in 1970 played a leading role in the creation of Donne Mileham & Haddock (later DMH Stallard), one of the largest provincial English law firms. In 1988 he...
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