Paul Newdick, a partner at Clyde & Co and chairman of LawWorks, has received a CBE for services to pro bono legal services in the latest Queen's birthday honours.


The list also features a prominent critic of the government's 42-day detention measure. Gazette columnist Roger Smith, director of the human rights and law reform organisation Justice, was awarded an OBE for services to human rights.



Another OBE went to Susan Rowlands, former general secretary of the Immigration Law Practitioners Association and a critic of the government's asylum policies.



OBEs also went to Michael Kennedy, chief operating officer, Crown Prosecution Service (CPS); Peter Scott QC, chairman of the Panel on Takeovers and Mergers; Colin Davies, Merseyside and Cheshire CPS; and Arthur Joiner JP, former Bristol Magistrates' Bench chairman.



Trevor Millington, senior lawyer, Revenue and Customs Prosecutions Office, also received an OBE.



Michael Cross