Olufunke Abimbola, general counsel for biiotech giant Roche in the UK and Ireland, is one of a handful of solicitors among more than 1,000 recipients of the Queen’s Birthday honours announced today. Abimbola receives the MBE for services to diversity in the legal profession and to young people.
Among the barristers honoured is children’s rights campaigner Professor Carolyn Hamilton, director of international programmes and research, Coram Children’s Legal Centre, is made DBE for services to children’s rights.
A member of the board of the Solicitors Regulation Authority, Professor Shamit Saggar of the University of Essex, is made a CBE for services to social science and public policy.
Legal figures honoured also include:
Edwin Beltrami, chief crown prosecutor London North: CBE for services to law and order.
Professor Kulwant Gill, University of Roehampton: CBE or services to tackling forced marriage, honour crimes and violence against women.
Alexandra Marks, Crown court recorder, criminal cases review commissioner, judicial appointments commissioner and chair, Prisoners’ Education Trust: CBE for public service.
Andrea Brewster, past president, Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys, receives the OBE for services to intellectual property.
Professor Emily Jackson, London School of Economics, receives the OBE for services to higher education.
Abimbola honoured in birthday list
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