Jenny Mansell

Jenny specialises in a variety of areas of housing law, including homelessness cases (such as challenging gatekeeping by local authorities, conducting reviews and county court appeals of negative decisions by the local authority and challenging the suitability of accommodation), poor housing conditions claims, possession proceedings brought on grounds of rent arrears, sub-letting and nuisance and anti-social behaviour injunctions (including committal proceedings).

Jenny also undertakes community care work including assisting people with physical and mental health difficulties in obtaining Care Act assessments and challenging cuts to care packages, support for homeless families with children, and challenging the suitability of asylum support accommodation. She enjoys undertaking work for young people in order to ensure that they are receiving appropriate support from the local authority under their Children Act duties.

With a busy mental capacity practice, Jenny is an Accredited Legal Representative and regularly undertakes challenges to unlawful deprivations of liberty under section 21A Mental Capacity Act 2005 instructed by a person’s Relevant Person’s Representative. She also undertakes welfare cases involving both young people and adults and deals with disputes over capacity.

Jenny’s particular area of interest is possession proceedings or anti-social behaviour injunctions where the person requires care and support and ultimately the case may need to go to the Court of Protection. Jenny is regularly instructed by the Official Solicitor on cases where clients lack capacity to provide instructions in these matters and due to her specialism in all three areas of law, she is able to see the case through from beginning to end. The provides invaluable oversight to the case at an early stage.

Jenny trained at TV Edwards LLP and qualified as a solicitor in 2014. She has worked for the firm since 2011. Jenny has a mixed practice of housing, community care and mental capacity work which allows her to provide a holistic service to her clients. Jenny now heads up the Social Welfare department jointly with Partner, Katie Brown

- Housing Law Practitioners’ Association

- Young Legal Aid Lawyers

- Accredited Legal Representative, Mental Capacity (Welfare) Accreditation