Crown Counsel and Auckland University Professor Paul Rishworth QC was made a Member of the British Empire (MBE) in the Overseas List of the British New Year Honours.

Professor Rishworth, who is also Attorney-General of the Pitcairn Islands, received the award for legal services in that capacity.

Professor Rishworth has been a member of the New Zealand Law Society's Law Reform Committee since 1997 and served as its convenor from 2005 until December 2014.