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The Chief Commoner welcomed a new Alderman, The Right Honourable Baroness Patricia Scotland of Asthal Q.C., to her first meeting of the Court of Common Council.

Alderman The Right Honourable Baroness Patricia Scotland of Asthal was heard in reply.

Resolved unanimously – that the sincere congratulations of this Court be offered to Alderman Fiona Woolf, D.B.E., on her recent appointment by Her Majesty the Queen as Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, for services to the legal profession, diversity and the City of London.

Resolved unanimously – that the sincere congratulations of this Court be offered to Wendy Mead, OBE, on her recent appointment by Her Majesty the Queen as an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for civic and community services in London.

Wendy Mead was heard in reply.

Resolved unanimously – that the sincere congratulations of this Court be offered to Sir David William Brewer, C.M.G., C.V.O., J.P., who served as Lord Mayor of the City of London in 2005/06 and is now Her Majesty’s Lord Lieutenant of Greater London, on his recent appointment by Her Majesty the Queen as a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order.

Resolved unanimously – that the sincere congratulations of this Court be offered to Brian Barker, C.B.E., Q.C., lately the Recorder of London, on his recent appointment by Her Majesty the Queen as a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, for services to the administration of justice and to charity.

Resolved unanimously – that the sincere congratulations of this Court be offered to Professor Peter Wynne Rees, C.B.E., lately the City of London Corporation’s Chief Planning Officer, on his recent appointment by Her Majesty the Queen as a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, for services to architecture and town planning.