Lucy Rigby
Lucy Rigby | |
|---|---|
 Official portrait, 2024 | |
| Member of Parliament for Northampton North | |
| Assumed office 4 July 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Michael Ellis |
| Majority | 9.014 (21.5%) |
| Parliamentary private secretary, Ministry of Justice | |
| Assumed office 15 November 2024 | |
| Member of Islington London Borough Council for Holloway | |
| In office 6 May 2010 – 22 May 2014 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1982 RAF Hospital Wegberg |
| Political party | Labour |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater | Durham University Nottingham Law School Oxford Institute of Legal Practice |
| Website | https://www.lucyrigby.co.uk |
Lucy Rigby (born 1982[citation needed]) is a British Labour Party politician and solicitor who has been Member of Parliament for Northampton North since 2024.[1], a member of the Treasury Select Committee[2] since 29 October 2024 and Parliamentary Private Secretary at the Ministry of Justice since 15 November 2024.
Early life
[edit]Rigby comes from a military and service background. Her father served in the Royal Engineers and she was born in RAF Hospital Wegberg in Germany. Her mother worked for the NHS.[3]
Rigby studied politics at Durham University, followed by a law conversion course at Nottingham Law School and the Legal Practice Course at the Oxford Institute of Legal Practice.[citation needed]
Career before Parliament
[edit]In 2007, Rigby joined Slaughter and May as a trainee solicitor, with secondments in Brussels and Sydney. She became an associate at the Magic Circle law firm in 2009, specialising in competition law, and left in March 2011 to join the litigation unit of the Office of Fair Trading.[citation needed]
In 2012, Rigby joined the consumer body Which?, specialising in competition and consumer law matters.[4]
Rigby was the Labour candidate in Lincoln in the 2015 United Kingdom general election.
In March 2017, Rigby joined the competition specialist law firm Hausfeld & Co LLP where she subsequently became a partner. She specialised in competition law and large-scale collective redress, particularly in opt-out collective actions before the Competition Appeal Tribunal and opt-in claims via a group litigation order.[5]
Lucy has received various accolades as a competition lawyer. She is ranked in Who's Who Legal 2023 and 2024 as a Global Leader in Competition Plaintiff, and in the Lawdragon 500 Global Plaintiff Lawyers for Competition Law. Lucy is also ranked as Next Generation Partner in the Legal 500 2024 for competition litigation and group litigation, in the Legal 500 2023 for competition litigation, and in Chamber UK 2024.[5]
Rigby was a board member of The Collective Redress Lawyers Association from November 2021 to April 2024.[4]
Parliamentary career
[edit]Rigby was elected as MP for Northampton North in the 2024 General Election.[6]
In November 2024, Rigby was appointed as a Parliamentary Private Secretary for the Ministry of Justice.[7]
References
[edit]- ^ "Northampton North - General election results 2024". BBC News. Retrieved 2024-07-14.
- ^ "Treasury Committee membership appointed". 29 October 2024.
- ^ "Lucy Rigby for Northampton North".
- ^ a b "Hausfeld Competition Pro Lucy Rigby Takes Political Plunge". Law360.
- ^ a b "Lucy Rigby". Hausfeld. April 11, 2024.
- ^ "Northampton North - General election results 2024". BBC News. Retrieved 2024-11-22.
- ^ Odell, Carly (15 November 2024). "Northampton MP appointed to parliamentary role with Ministry of Justice". Northampton Chronicle & Echo. Retrieved 22 November 2024.
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- 1982 births
- Living people
- UK MPs 2024–present
- Labour Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
- Alumni of Durham University
- 21st-century British women politicians
- Alumni of Nottingham Trent University
- Councillors in the London Borough of Islington
- Labour Party (UK) councillors
- Female members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies