Lucy Scott-Moncrieff, commissioner
Lucy Scott-Moncrieff was appointed commissioner on 1 September 2008, for a three-year term.
Ms Scott-Moncrieff is a solicitor and the managing partner of Scott-Moncrieff, Harbour and Sinclair, a legal aid practice which continuously innovates so as to ensure that it is able to offer high quality advice and representation in a hostile financial climate to its vulnerable clients, many of whom are on the margins of society.
She is a Law Society Council Member, and has chaired both the Access to Justice Committee and the Mental Health and Disability Committee, on both of which she remains as a member. Her interest in proportionate regulation led to her election to the Law Society's Regulatory Affairs Board.
She is a member of the QC Appointments Panel, set up to ensure that appointments are made without discriminating against minorities and those working in areas of law that do not bring them to mainstream attention.
Ms Scott-Moncrieff sits as a part time legal president of the Mental Health Review Tribunal, which considers whether patients detained in hospital under the Mental Health Act 1983 are entitled to be discharged from detention, and her interest in mental health law is also pursued through her directorship of Edge Training Ltd, a company that offers training on mental health and mental capacity law to health and social services organisations.
- Term of appointment
- 1 September 2008 - 31 August 2011
Related news releases:
21 August 2008 Postcomm welcomes appointment of Lucy Scott-Moncrieff as commissioner
