Lucy Rigby | |
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Solicitor General for England and Wales | |
Assumed office 2 December 2024 | |
Prime Minister | Keir Starmer |
Preceded by | Sarah Sackman |
Member of Parliament for Northampton North | |
Assumed office 4 July 2024 | |
Preceded by | Michael Ellis |
Majority | 9,014 (21.5%) |
Member of Islington London Borough Council for Holloway | |
In office May 2010 –March 2012 | |
Personal details | |
Born | November 1982 (age 42) 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 Clementine Moores Rigby (born November 1982) is a British Labour Party politician and solicitor who has been Member of Parliament for Northampton North since 2024. [1] She has served as Solicitor General for England and Wales since 2 December 2024.
Rigby was born in November 1982. [2] 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,graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree. [4] [5] She then undertook a Graduate Diploma in Law (a law conversion course) at Nottingham Law School and the Legal Practice Course at the Oxford Institute of Legal Practice. [4]
Rigby spent time with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in the Hague. [6] She joined Slaughter and May as a trainee in 2007, [7] and was admitted as a solicitor in May 2009. [8] [9] She spent secondments in Brussels and Sydney. She remained at Slaughter and May as an associate from 2009 to 2011,specialising in competition law. [7] [10] She then joined the litigation unit of the Office of Fair Trading,working from 2011 to 2012. [7]
After spending time dedicated to trying to win a parliamentary seat at the 2015 General Election, [11] Rigby then worked at the consumer body Which?,from 2015 to 2017. [7] She specialised in competition and consumer law matters. [12]
In March 2017,Rigby joined the competition specialist law firm Hausfeld &Co LLP. 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. [4] She became a partner in 2021. [7]
Rigby was a board member of The Collective Redress Lawyers Association from November 2021 to April 2024. [12]
In 2010,Rigby was elected a councillor for the Holloway ward of Islington London Borough Council. [13] She stepped down in March 2012,triggering a by-election. [11]
In 2012,Rigby was selected as Labour's prospective parliamentary candidate for Lincoln. [14] In the 2015 United Kingdom general election,she came in second with 18,533 votes (39.6%). [15]
Rigby was elected as MP for Northampton North in the 2024 General Election. [16]
Lucy was elected by Labour MPs a member of the Treasury Select Committee on 29 October 2024, [17] She was also subsequently elected as a delegate to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly. Following the Assembly's Annual Session in Montreal in November 2024,Lucy was elected as the vice-chair of the Transition and Development Sub-Committee of the Economic and Security Committee. [18]
In November 2024,Rigby was appointed as a Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Ministry of Justice. [19] She was appointed Solicitor General in December 2024,in a minor reshuffle following the resignation of Louise Haigh. [20]
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