Richard Port, associate at Midlands firm George Green receives an MBE for legal services to victims of domestic abuse in Derbyshire and the Black Country. Port, who has worked with women’s refuges and domestic abuse charities, said: ‘This honour comes after years of campaigning and supporting those who need help but unfortunately my work in tackling this problem faced by people from all walks of life has not ended and will not until the day such abuse is eradicated.’
CBEs go to City lawyers Sandra Wallace, joint managing director, UK & Europe, DLA Piper, for services to law and social mobility, and Stephen Reese, IP partner, Clifford Chance, for services to the COVID-19 response.
On Wallace’s award, DLA Global Co-CEO Simon Levine said: ‘Not only is she a first-class lawyer and managing director on our executive, but she’s doing all she can to shift the needle on social mobility in the UK. The work that Sandra does both in the firm and outside of it is truly inspirational and she is a role-model for our values.’
Former Lord Chancellor Robert Buckland QC MP, who was replaced by Dominic Raab MP in September, is to be knighted for services to public and political service.
Among the judiciary, Tanweer Ikram, Deputy Senior District Judge (Chief Magistrate), receives a CBE for services to judicial diversity. Simon Massarella JP, National Digital Lead for the Magistracy, receives and OBE for services to the administration of justice. Massarella said: ‘To receive such fantastic and unparalleled recognition is beyond words. I work with some extraordinary people who have helped me, tirelessly to achieve many goals, and I thank them all.’
Other magistrates honoured were: Evelyn Bowman JP, senior complaints manager in the ministerial complaints team at HM Revenue & Customs, who received an OBE for public service; and Lynne Morris JP, who works at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, and is Chief Executive Officer of the Toybox Charity, who received an OBE for services to children in the UK and abroad.
James Mackie JP, who works in the Department for Transport, and is Chair of the Lifeboat Management Group, based at Southend on Sea Lifeboat Station, received an MBE for services to the RNLI and to charity; and Sharman Birtles JP DL was awarded the MBE for services to charity and the community in Greater Manchester.
CBEs also go to Linda Brown, chief executive, Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority, for services to justice and victims of crime, and to Nicholas Owen, former chair at Deloitte, for services to the professional services sector.
OBEs go to Amir Ali, former chair, Civil Court Users Association, for services to court users and the law; Michelle Brown, previously senior district Crown prosecutor at CPS East of England; Robin Caley, senior lawyer, HMRC, for services to tax and pandemic support; and Kathryn Munson, head, probation services, Hull and East Riding, for services to the criminal justice system.
