Penny is a policy consultant, writer and trainer specialising in mental health and capacity law. She is editor of the
Elder Law Journal; contributor to
Court of Protection Practice and
Mental Capacity: Law and Practice (all Jordan Publishing);
Assessment of Mental Capacity and
Mental Health Tribunals. She was Specialist Adviser to the Joint Parliamentary Select Committee on the Draft Mental Incapacity Bill and prepared a major part of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 Code of Practice. Penny was formerly Law Society Policy Adviser on Mental Health and Disability, a Mental Health Act Commissioner and a member of the Administrative Justice and Tribunals Council.
18 MAY 2026
