Lucy Scott-Moncrieff

Lucy Ann Scott-Moncrieff (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 in Aldershot, Hampshire. She was educated at Guildford College. She studied Law at the University of Kent from 1972 to 1975. She attended the College of Law, Guildford, at the University of Law.

Scott-Moncrieff lives in North West London.

Career Scott-Moncrieff qualified in 1978. In 1986 she joined a sub-committee dealing with the first Law Society specialist panel. She had roles in criminal law at the London firms Offenbach and Bradbury. "as she wanted the flexibility of self-employment to combine work with motherhood". 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. At the time, Scott-Moncrieff was starting to specialise in mental health and human rights law. She is managing director of the firm.

In December 2017 she was appointed to the members' advisory board of mutual Wesleyan.

She is a former patron of the Kent Law Campaign, to raise funds for the Wigoder Law Building at the University of Kent.

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 October 2019 Scott-Moncrieff was awarded the "Lifetime Achievement Award" by The Law Society for "her outstanding contribution to the legal profession".