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10 June 2022
Issue: 7982 / Categories: Legal News
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A well-known Magic Circle lawyer and a former attorney general are among lawyers recognised in the Queen’s Birthday honours list

A well-known Magic Circle lawyer and a former attorney general are among lawyers recognised in the Queen’s Birthday honours list.

The platinum jubilee will have been extra special for Slaughter and May’s Nigel Boardman, who has been knighted for services to the legal profession. Also celebrating will be Jeremy Wright MP, attorney general between 2014 and 2018. Wright, who voted against Boris Johnson in the vote of no confidence this week, has been knighted for political and public service.

Ince Group consultant Ramesh Vala received a CBE for his charitable work.

OBEs went to retired family court judge Anthony Cleary and shipping lawyer Harry Theochari, senior consultant at Norton Rose Fulbright. MBEs went to Pranav Bhanot, solicitor at Meaby&Co and co-chair of the Indian National Association of Legal Professionals (UK Division), and Andrew Skipper, senior counsel and chair of Africa practice, Hogan Lovells.

Skipper said he was ‘especially happy that this recognition relates to the work I have been doing in Africa, a continent I admire greatly’.

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