Lawyers recognised in honours listSeveral solicitors received recognition in the Queen's birthday honours list released last weekend.Agricultural law specialist Andrew Densham, the joint senior partner of Bristol-based Burgess Salmon, received a CBE for services to the agricultural industry.

Mr Densham said: 'I am absolutely delighted that at a time when agriculture is going through such a difficult period that our work here has been so generously acknowledged.'Clifford Hodgetts, former senior partner of Thomas Eggar Church Adams in Chichester, received an OBE for legal services to the Church of England.

The honour follows many years as registrar to the dean and chapters of Westminster Abbey and Chichester Cathedral.William Thorpe, principal Crown Prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service in Humberside, also received an OBE.Fay Landau, the Brighton-based sole practitioner and former chairman of the Sole Practitioners Group, was awarded an MBE for her work with the Solicitors Benevolent Association, which provides help and assistance for solicitors and their dependants.Joseph Pearlman, a partner at Leeds firm Brooke North, washonoured for his work with the Ramblers Association.

A member of the association for 40 years, he has been its national solicitor for the past 15.

Mr Pearlman said the group has moved away from an image of 'bobble hats and gas capes' and was now respected for defending the historic network of public rights of way.Well-known human rights specialist Saul Lehrfreund, a non-lawyer at London firm Simons Muirhead & Burton, was honoured with an MBE for services to international human rights law through his workrepresenting death row prisoners.

Another non-lawyer, Professor Hazel Genn, was awarded a CBE for services to research in civil justice.

Prof Genn has produced high-profile research on the use of mediation and, last year, 'Paths to Justice', which looked at how people perceived and used legal services.Sue Allen