Queen’s Birthday Honours

Brick Court’s David Anderson QC has received a peerage and a knighthood in the space of a few days.

Anderson (pictured), a former independent reviewer of terrorism legislation as well as a barrister specialising in EU, public and human rights law, received news last week that he is to be made a cross-bench Peer.

Just a few days later, Anderson was appointed Knight Commander of the British Empire in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List, for services to national security and civil liberties.

Sir David, as he now is, expects to be introduced to the House of Lords after the summer recess. Though a working peer, he will continue to practise law.

Several other lawyers featured in the Queen’s Birthday Honours, including James Eadie QC, first treasury counsel, knighted for services to law and government, and former director of the Serious Fraud Office, David Green QC, knighted for services to the criminal justice system.

Sonya Bedford, partner and head of energy at Stephens Scown, received an MBE for services to community energy.

CBEs went to: James Murdoch, professor of public law at the University of Glasgow, for services to education and human rights; Jennifer Temkin, professor of law at City Law School, University of London, for services to criminal justice; Robert Ayling, former independent chair of the HM Courts and Tribunals Service board, for public service; and Alun Tucker, former member of the UN International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, for services to international justice.

OBEs went to: Malcolm Richardson, national chairman, Magistrates' Association, for services to the administration of justice; Northern Ireland barrister Barry Valentine, for services to the legal profession and the courts; Clare Horrocks, former principal judge at the War Pensions and Armed Forces Compensation Chamber, for services to the armed forces and the administration of justice; and Riaz (Raymond) Naqvi, resident judge at Sovereign Base Area Cyprus, for services to defence.