Former SRA board member (2006-2009)

Penelope Owston

Penny Owston qualified as a solicitor in 1980 and is the senior partner of a four-partner High Street firm, where, as a higher court advocate, she specialises in public law children proceedings.

In 1995 she enrolled in the MBA in Legal Practice Management at Nottingham Law School and is now a member of the faculty. Since 1997 she has provided training and consultancy in law firm management, primarily to legal aid firms, and has written extensively about the subject. She is a director of Brightwater Consultancy and Development Ltd. In 2003, with her co-director Simon McCall, she wrote Making a Success of Legal Aid.

From 2000 to 2005, she was the Law Society Council Member for Lincolnshire and was a member of the Society's Standards Board.