Lucy Scott-Moncrieff
{{Short description|British lawyer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2022}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Lucy Scott-Moncrieff
| honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|CBE}}
| birth_date = {{birth month and age|1954|3}}
| birth_place = Aldershot, Hampshire, England
| education = Guildford College
| alma_mater = University of Kent
University of Law
| occupation = Lawyer
| known_for = Former House of Lords Commissioner for Standards
}}
Lucy Ann Scott-Moncrieff {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|CBE}} (born March 1954) is a British lawyer and a former House of Lords commissioner for standards. She specialises in mental health and human rights law.
Early and personal life
Scott-Moncrieff was born in March 1954{{cite web |title=Lucy SCOTT-MONCRIEFF personal appointments |url=https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/Dgwd75ggEn3MuLYqKPscJiUDpnk/appointments |access-date=25 June 2022 |work=Companies House}} in Aldershot, Hampshire. She was educated at Guildford College. She studied Law at the University of Kent from 1972 to 1975.{{cite news |title=Alumna Dr Lucy Scott-Moncrieff awarded Lifetime Achievement Award |url=https://blogs.kent.ac.uk/staff-student-news/2019/10/25/alumna-dr-lucy-scott-moncrieff-awarded-lifetime-achievement-award/ |access-date=25 June 2022 |work=blogs.kent.ac.uk |date=25 October 2019}} She attended the College of Law, Guildford, at the University of Law.{{cite web |last1=Rayner |first1=Jonathan |title=Interview: Lucy Scott-Moncrieff |url=https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/people/interview-lucy-scott-moncrieff/5058423.article |access-date=25 June 2022 |work=Law Gazette |date=24 October 2016}}
Scott-Moncrieff lives in North West London.{{cite news |last1=Bird |first1=Steve |last2=Hope |first2=Christopher |title=Law chief's wild pond mired freeholder in years of litigation |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/07/24/law-chiefs-wild-pond-mired-freeholder-years-litigation/ |access-date=25 June 2022 |work=The Telegraph |date=24 July 2021}}
Career
Scott-Moncrieff qualified in 1978. In 1986 she joined a sub-committee dealing with the first Law Society specialist panel.{{cite web |title=Lucy Scott-Moncrieff CBE |url=https://www.lawsociety.org.uk/about-us/our-governance/council-constituencies-and-current-members/lucy-scott-moncrief |access-date=25 June 2022 |work=The Law Society}} She had roles in criminal law at the London firms Offenbach and Bradbury.
Scott-Moncrieff founded the solicitors' firm Scott-Moncrieff & Associates Ltd in 1987,{{cite web |title=Lucy Scott-Moncrieff |url=https://www.lsbu.ac.uk/study/study-at-lsbu/our-schools/law-and-social-sciences/study/subjects/law/inspired-by-law/2015-gallery/lucy-scott-moncrieff |access-date=25 June 2022 |work=London South Bank University}} "as she wanted the flexibility of self-employment to combine work with motherhood".{{cite web |title=Founder & Managing Director |url=https://www.scomo.com/about/founder-managing-director.html |access-date=25 June 2022 |work=Scott-Moncrieff}} It was the first virtual solicitors' firm in the world, in which all the lawyers are self-employed consultants working from home or their own offices.{{cite news |title=Lucy Scott-Moncrieff |url=https://first100years.org.uk/person/lucy-scott-moncrieff/ |access-date=25 June 2022 |work=First 100 Years}} At the time, Scott-Moncrieff was starting to specialise in mental health and human rights law. She is managing director of the firm.
She spent most of her career representing mentally disordered offenders detained in high secure hospitals.
She was elected to the Law Society Council in January 2002. She was President of The Law Society from 2012 to 2013, and then chaired its Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Committee for five years.
Scott-Moncrieff has been a Mental Health Act commissioner and a founder member of the QC Appointments Panel, and was a commissioner at the Postal Services Commission from 2008 to 2011.
Scott-Moncrieff was appointed House of Lords Commissioner for Standards for five years beginning on 1 June 2016. The role was openly advertised. She succeeded Paul Kernaghan.{{cite news |title=Commissioner for Standards - Hansard |url=https://hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2016-05-26/debates/667A9C73-D75E-4E90-BB78-7E14F8215399/CommissionerForStandards |access-date=26 June 2022 |work=UK Parliament |date=26 May 2016}}
In December 2017 she was appointed to the members' advisory board of mutual Wesleyan.{{cite web |title=New appointment for Lucy Scott-Moncrieff |url=https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/people/new-appointment-for-lucy-scott-moncrieff-/5064117.article |access-date=25 June 2022 |work=Law Gazette |date=21 December 2017}}
She is a former patron of the Kent Law Campaign, to raise funds for the Wigoder Law Building at the University of Kent.
Martin Jelley and Akbar Khan took over from her as House of Lords Commissioner for Standards from 1 June and 1 July 2021 respectively.{{cite web |title=House of Lords appoints new Commissioners for Standards |url=https://www.parliament.uk/business/news/2021/may/lords-commissioners-for-standards/ |work=UK Parliament |access-date=25 June 2022}}
Scott-Moncrieff was accused by peers of using "bullying" letters to persuade them to attend a course to combat bullying, discrimination and sexual harassment.
In July 2021, The Telegraph reported that Scott-Moncrieff had been engaged in a legal battle with the freeholder at her home in North West London after she built a wild swimming pond.
Scott-Moncrieff is Co-Chair of the Legal Aid and Access to Justice Committee of the International Bar Association. She has been a commissioner with the Judicial Appointments Committee. She is a mental health tribunal judge. She also sits as a judge for the Court of Protection. She is a member of the Bach Commission on Access to Justice. She is an associate with Verita, which carries out investigations on behalf of public bodies.
Awards and honours
In 2005 Scott-Moncrieff was named "Mental Health Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year".
In 2009 Scott-Moncrieff was made an Honorary Doctor of Laws at the University of Kent.
In 2011 she won the Association of Women Solicitors award for best manager of a legal aid practice. She was appointed Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2014 New Year Honours for services to legal aid.{{cite web |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-years-honours-lists-2014 |title=New Year's Honours lists 2014 |work=GOV.UK |date=30 December 2013 |access-date=26 June 2022 |format=PDF}}
In October 2019 Scott-Moncrieff was awarded the "Lifetime Achievement Award" by The Law Society for "her outstanding contribution to the legal profession".
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Category:Alumni of the University of Kent
Category:Alumni of the University of Law
Category:Presidents of the Law Society of England and Wales
Category:Commanders of the Order of the British Empire