Lucy qualified as a solicitor in 1978, and has worked in the fields ofmental health and human rights law ever since.

She sits as a Mental Health Tribunal judge and provides training for those applying for membership of the Law Society's Mental Health Tribunal Panel.

In 2005 Lucy won the Mental Health Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year award. She is acknowledged as a leader in her field in the Chambers Directory and the Legal 500. She acted for H, the detained patient who obtained the first declaration of incompatibility and remedial order under the Human Rights Act 1998 and many of her cases have been reported over the years.

Lucy is the managing partner of the firm, which was short listed for the Law Society's inaugural award for Excellence in Innovation in 2007.

Lucy is a director of Edge Training Limited, a company that offers training on the law to the purchasers and providers of health and social care, a founder member of the QC Appointments Panel and an associate with Verita, with whom she has been, and is, involved in a number of high profile homicide and other investigations.

She is a Law Society Council Member, and is also a Commissioner with the postal regulator Postcomm.

Lucy is on the editorial boards of the Community care law reports and the Journal of mental health law and has written and broadcast regularly on legal issues over the years.