Lecturer
LLB (Birmingham), LLM (UCL), Barrister (Gray’s Inn)
Email: tracey.elliott@le.ac.uk
Telephone: 0116 229 7304

After graduating from Birmingham University, Tracey was called to the Bar and practised from 4 Paper Buildings and 9-12 Bell Yard, specialising in criminal litigation and advisory work, acting for both prosecution and defence. She has worked as a lecturer at Queen Mary University of London and as a visiting lecturer at City University, the University of Surrey, King’s College, London and the LSE. She has lectured to the legal and medical professions and assisted with advocacy training at Gray’s Inn. She has worked in Poland, lecturing Polish judges, prosecutors and Ministry of Justice officials on the UK legal system. Her current research projects relate to the use of law to promote a public health agenda and in the law relating to the treatment and care of adults who lack capacity.

Research Interests

Health care law, mental health law and criminal law and evidence.

Selected Publications

• “ Body Dysmorphic Disorder, Surgery and the Limits of Consent” (2009) 17 Medical Law Review 149
• With Professor David Ormerod: “Acts and Omissions: A distinction without a defence” (2008) 39 Cambrian Law Review 40
• “Screening for abdominal aortic aneurysms: some legal implications” (2008) 14 Clinical Risk 211
• “Capacity, Sex and the Mentally Disordered” [2008] 2 Archbold News 6
• “R v C (Mental Disorder: Sexual Activity): case note and commentary” [2008] 6 Archbold News 5
• “No Need for the Fat Police” (2007) 157 N.L.J. 427
• Contributor to Jowitt’s Legal Dictionary (3 rd edn.).