Roger Harper, South West employment judge, received an MBE in the New Year’s Honours List, as did Dr Xiaojiu Zhu, founder and chair of the UK Society of Chinese Lawyers; magistrates Thomas Donaldson, William Harmsworth, Jeanne Kenyon and Steven Vear; and solicitors Mehmooda Duke, founder of Moosa-Duke Solicitors, and Gopal Krishan Gupta, founder of Gupta & Partners. Former Law Society president and Personal Support Unit chair Robert Heslett received a CBE. OBEs went to Ruby Bhatti, solicitor at Taylor Price Solicitors in Manchester, and former Allen & Overy global head of tax Patrick Mears, now a consultant at HMRC.