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Legal dames & knights

08 January 2020
Issue: 7869 / Categories: Legal News , Profession
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Former Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Alison Saunders received a Damehood in the New Year’s Honours List.

Saunders’s tenure covered the London Riots and the retrial and conviction of the killers of Stephen Lawrence.

Knighthoods went to barrister Bob Neill MP, former chairman of the House of Commons justice committee, and Jonathan Jones, the Permanent Secretary of the Government Legal Department. Jones’s colleague, Catherine Adams, director of the Government Legal Department, was made a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George for her work.

Professor Julia Black, Professor of Law at LSE, was made a CBE.

OBEs went to Gillian Guy, chief executive of Citizens Advice, and retired principal Crown Advocate René Barclay. Also at the Crown Prosecution Service, MBEs went to Parveen Hassan in CPS West Midlands, Martin Mckay-Smith, training principal, and paralegal officer Kim O’Neill, who has worked on some of the service’s most complex and sensitive cases.

Issue: 7869 / Categories: Legal News , Profession
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