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18 June 2025
Issue: 8121 / Categories: Legal News , Profession
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Seal of approval for lawyers named in Birthday Honours

Lawyers recognised in the King’s Birthday Honours list include Suffolk Law Centre founder Audrey Ludwig, and Reed Smith partner and former chair of the Black Solicitors’ Network Paulette Mastin

Ludwig receives an MBE for services to legal aid and Mastin is awarded the CBE for services to diversity. Employment judge Carol Taylor receives a CBE for services to justice.

Barrister Adam Dawson, Deka Chambers, receives the MBE for services to charity and the Jewish community. In the Crown Prosecution Service, awards for services to law and order went to specialist prosecutor Hannah Sidaway (OBE), paralegal Parimalkumar Patel (MBE) and casework manager Elizabeth Swift (MBE). Lynne Mills, cluster manager of the Criminal Courts in Wales, and Derek Winter, former deputy chief coroner, receive OBEs.

Also in the public sector, a CBE went to Legal Aid Agency chief executive Jane Harbottle, while Piers Le Marquand, senior lawyer at the Department for Transport, receives an OBE.

Issue: 8121 / Categories: Legal News , Profession
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