The lawyer and journalist Joshua Rozenberg has been appointed an honorary QC.

A non-practising solicitor, Mr Rozenberg was acknowledged by the Queen as the “pre-eminent legal analyst of modern times”.

He is best known as a leading law journalist and commentator and was the BBC’s first legal correspondent.

After moving to the Daily Telegraph he now writes as a freelance commentator and analyst and contributes to broadcast and media outlets across the world, including the JC.

Mr Rozenberg presents Law in Action on Radio 4 and has published a number of books.

The Queen approved more than 100 new Queen’s Counsels on Monday. Mr Rozenberg is one of eight to be made Queen’s Counsel Honoris Causa.

He will be formally presented with the honour at Westminster Hall next month.

On Twitter, Mr Rozenberg said he was “utterly chuffed”.

Lord Chancellor Michael Gove said: “I congratulate the eight new Honorary Queen’s Counsel.

“Their appointments recognise the major contribution each has made to the law of England and Wales outside of practice in the courts, in some cases in careers spanning many years.

“I also commend the further 107 barristers and solicitors, who have demonstrated their excellence as advocates in practice, for their appointment to Queens’ Counsel.”

Daniel Lightman, of the Serle Court chambers in Lincoln's Inn in London, was also made a Queen's Counsel.