A knighthood for a former senior partner at a magic circle firm heads the list of awards to legal figures in the New Year Honours List, announced today. Edward Charles Braham, chair of financial services giant M&G, is knighted for services to corporate law and to business. Braham was previously senior partner at global firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.
Former solicitor Sadiq Khan, now mayor of London, also receives a knighthood, for political and public service. Barrister Professor Eleanor Sharpston KC, former advocate general at the European Court of Justice, becomes a dame commander of the Order of Saint Michael and Saint George for services to justice and to the education of law in the UK and Europe.
Solicitor and Law Society Council member Dana Denis-Smith receives the OBE for services to women in the legal profession.
More than 1,200 recipients receive honours this year, ‘with particular commendation to role models in sport, healthcare, academia and voluntary service’, the government announced.
Awards of interest to the legal profession include:
CBE
Charles Pritam Singh Dhanowa OBE, registrar at the Competition Appeal Tribunal, is honoured for services to competition law.
Barrister Christopher Katowski KC receives the honour for services to planning.
James Edwin Palmer senior corporate and governance lawyer at Herbert Smith Freehills, receives the honour for services to business and to law.
Judge Sehba Haroon Storey, lately principal judge, Asylum Support Tribunal, is honoured for services to diversity and inclusion.
Professor Richard Eric Susskind OBE, a former long-serving technology adviser to the lord chief justice, is honoured for services to information technology and to the law.
OBE
Daniela Luminita Denis-Smith, founder and chief executive, Obelisk Support, is honoured for services to women in the legal profession. Denis-Smith is founder of the First 100 Years and Next 100 Years campaigns.
Ian Karet, partner at Linklaters and former interim chair at the Charity Commission, is honoured for charitable and public service.
Emma Jane Morris, solicitor to the Infected Blood Inquiry, receives the award for public service.
The same award, for services to justice, goes to subpostmaster campaigners Lee Castleton, Christopher David Head and Seema Misra; Computer Weekly journallist Rebecca Margaret Mary Thomson, who first reported the Post Office scandal, is also honoured for services to justice.
MBE
Lieutenant Colonel David Joseph Cotton, Adjutant General’s Corps (Army Legal Services Branch) receives the award in the Military Division.
Claire Louise Croot, paralegal business manager, Crown Prosecution Service is honoured for services to law and order.
Lisa Haythorne, senior solicitor Derbyshire Law Centre, and lately president Sheffield and District Law Society, receives the honour for services to homeless and vulnerable people.
Margaret Kirby, solicitor and founder, Legacare is honoured for services to the law and to vulnerable people.
Daniel Kevin Longman JP, deputy chair, Liverpool Bench, receives the award for services to the administration of justice.
Anna Twomlow, victim and witness care coordinator, at the Serious Fraud Office is honoured for services to the administration of justice.
