I was thinking the same thing today Cpt Dart, he had more moral compass than any and all of the CX management that he negotiated against. They were intellectual pigmies in his presence.
He told me a time when he was in consultation with a senior government official who was sent as a mediator in the union negotiations. He destroyed her with knowledge and logic, both of which she lacked in spades, and she was withdrawn from the negotiations with her tail between her legs.
The cricket metaphors he wrote about his giving evidence in the court case were a classic of tragic humour. In the same book he relates the elation on hearing the admission from the CX board member that the 49ers had been fired, "For no particular reason", which was the crux of the case. The phrase, "Cathay management striving hard for the moral low ground" was coined in the early 1990s, but was reborn in that court case.
A good man, sorry to see him and his like go.