Sir Denis Robert Maurice Henry, PC (19 April 1931 – 6 March 2010) was an English barrister, Queen's Counsel and judge, rising to Lord Justice of Appeal.
He was educated at Shrewsbury School, then performed national service with the King's Own Royal Regiment, and afterwards read law at Balliol College, Oxford.
[2] He is perhaps best noted for presiding over two Guinness share-trading fraud trials in the 1980s, the first resulting in long prison sentences and heavy fines for Ernest Saunders, Gerald Ronson, Jack Lyons and Anthony Parnes.
[1] An obituary in The Scotsman suggests that it was for the meticulous care he had shown in representing Acas in a case connected with the Grunwick dispute that he was chosen to preside at the Guinness trial,[2] despite only slight experience in criminal law.
He was a keen golfer, playing from a low handicap and was awarded a half blue at Balliol, and elected captain of Royal Wimbledon Golf Club.