Jenny Mansell > TV Edwards Solicitors LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile
TV Edwards Solicitors LLP Offices
18 St John's Road
SW11 1PN
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Jenny Mansell
Work Department
Housing and Community Care
Position
Associate
Career
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 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.
Memberships
- Housing Law Practitioners’ Association
- Young Legal Aid Lawyers
- Accredited Legal Representative, Mental Capacity (Welfare) Accreditation
Lawyer Rankings
London > Public sector > Administrative and public law
Harnessing crossover specialisms in housing and Court of Protection work, TV Edwards Solicitors LLP has been successful in numerous challenges of local authority social services departments, including those concerning emergency accommodation and care services. Katie Brown jointly leads the social welfare department with senior partner Jacky Starling; they provide extensive expertise in housing and community care law. Jenny Mansell and Monica Kreel are noted at associate level.