A LAWYER who helped victims of the 7/7 bombing get compensation and a campaigner who has raised awareness of the pressure of women in gangs are among those named in this year's New Year Honour lists.

Yasmin Waljee is a human rights activist who, while working for London law firm Lovells, set up a scheme offering free advice to charities and individuals who could not afford to pursue legal action.

The Winchmore Hill resident has become a world-reknowned activist, helping people on death row in the Caribbean and British nationals detained abroad, many of whom are facing the death penalty.

Ms Waljee set up the Asian Lawyers Society helpline, offering the services of lawyers and interpreters to ethnic minorities for free.

After the 7/7 London bombings in 2005, she took up the cause of victims in helping them to seek compensation for their injuries.

She is now set to receive an OBE for services to disadvantaged young Muslims.

Joining her on the list announced today is Carlene Firmin, a senior policy officer at Race on the Agenda and chief executive of the GAG Project, who has been awarded an MBE for services to girls' and women's issues.

Ms Firmin said earlier this year that rape is used as “a weapon of choice” in gangs, in a report she authored on the role of women in gangs.

Still in her 20s, the Edmonton resident set up the Gendered Action of Gangs project (GAG) to help young women be empowered to tackle gang and serious youth violence, and has set up the scheme in deprived areas of London to give women the information on how to change their communities.

She is also a leading voice on the Enfield race equality council and at thinktank Race on the Agenda.

Also included in the New Year Honour List from Enfield are Lindsay Neil Green, administrative director at the Medical Research Council at the Clinical Sciences Centre, for services to science, who receives an MBE, and Theonitsa Sergides, from Winchmore Hill and headteacher at Grafton Primary School in Islington, who receives an OBE.