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Lucy Rigby
KC MP
Official portrait, 2024
Solicitor General for England and Wales
Incumbent
Assumed office
2 December 2024
Prime MinisterKeir Starmer
Preceded bySarah Sackman
Member of Parliament
for Northampton North
Incumbent
Assumed office
4 July 2024
Preceded byMichael Ellis
Majority9,014 (21.5%)
Member of Islington London Borough Council for Holloway
In office
May 2010 – March 2012
Personal details
BornWegberg, West Germany
Political partyLabour
Children2
Alma materDurham University
Nottingham Law School
Oxford Institute of Legal Practice
Websitehttps://www.lucyrigby.co.uk

Lucy Clementine Moores Rigby 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.

Early life and education

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Rigby's father served in the Royal Engineers and she was born in RAF Hospital Wegberg in Germany. Her mother worked for the NHS.[2]

Rigby studied politics at Durham University, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree.[3][4] 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.[3]

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Rigby spent time with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in the Hague.[5] She joined Slaughter and May as a trainee in 2007,[6] and was admitted as a solicitor in May 2009.[7][8] She spent secondments in Brussels and Sydney. She remained at Slaughter and May as an associate from 2009 to 2011, specialising in competition law.[6][9] She then joined the litigation unit of the Office of Fair Trading, working from 2011 to 2012.[6]

After spending time dedicated to trying to win a parliamentary seat at the 2015 General Election,[10] Rigby then worked at the consumer body Which?, from 2015 to 2017.[6] She specialised in competition and consumer law matters.[11]

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.[3] She became a partner in 2021.[6]

Rigby was listed as a 'Global Leader in Competition Plaintiff' in Who's Who Legal 2023[12] and in Lawdragon's 500 Global Plaintiff Lawyers 2024.[13]

Rigby was a board member of The Collective Redress Lawyers Association from November 2021 to April 2024.[11]

Political career

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In 2010, Rigby was elected a councillor for the Holloway ward of Islington London Borough Council.[14] She stepped down in March 2012, triggering a by-election.[10]

In 2012, Rigby was selected as Labour's prospective parliamentary candidate for Lincoln.[15] In the 2015 United Kingdom general election, she came in second with 18,533 votes (39.6%).[16]

House of Commons

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Rigby was elected as MP for Northampton North in the 2024 General Election.[17]

On 29 October 2024, Rigby was elected a member of the Treasury Select Committee.[18] She was also subsequently elected as a delegate to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly. Following the Assembly's Annual Session in Montreal in November 2024, Rigby was elected as the vice-chair of the Transition and Development Sub-Committee of the Economic and Security Committee.[19]

In November 2024, Rigby was appointed as a Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Ministry of Justice.[20] She was appointed Solicitor General in December 2024, in a minor reshuffle following the resignation of Louise Haigh.[21]

On 3 February 2025, Rigby was appointed King's Counsel.[22]

References

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  1. ^ "Northampton North - General election results 2024". BBC News. Retrieved 2024-07-14.
  2. ^ "Lucy Rigby for Northampton North". lucyrigby.co.uk.
  3. ^ a b c "Lucy Rigby". Hausfeld. 11 April 2024. Archived from the original on 8 July 2024.
  4. ^ "Durham alumni join UK Parliament". www.durham.ac.uk. Durham University. 8 July 2024. Retrieved 9 December 2024.
  5. ^ Lucy Rigby MP [@LucyRigby] (11 July 2024). "A very potent reminder of why we must always unite against hatred. I spent time with the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia as a young lawyer & I'll never forget the testimony of witnesses to the most appalling of atrocities. Today we remember the victims of the massacre & their families" (Tweet). Retrieved 9 December 2024 – via Twitter.
  6. ^ a b c d e "Rigby, Lucy, MP (Lab) Northampton North, since 2024". Who's Who 2025. Oxford University Press. 1 December 2024. Retrieved 9 December 2024.
  7. ^ "Person:Lucy Clementine Moores Rigby". www.sra.org.uk. Solicitors Regulation Authority. 7 October 2019. Retrieved 9 December 2024.
  8. ^ "Lucy Clementine Moores Rigby". solicitors.lawsociety.org.uk. The Law Society. Retrieved 9 December 2024.
  9. ^ "Former Slaughter and May lawyer appointed Solicitor General". Legal Cheek. 3 December 2024. Retrieved 9 December 2024.
  10. ^ a b Marshall, Tom (28 March 2012). "Holloway by-election triggered after councillor resigns". Islington Gazette. Retrieved 9 December 2024.
  11. ^ a b Tabahriti, Sam (28 June 2024). "Hausfeld Competition Pro Lucy Rigby Takes Political Plunge". Law360.
  12. ^ "WWL Competition 2023 honours 21 Hausfeld lawyers globally". Hausfeld. 13 January 2025.
  13. ^ "The 2024 Lawdragon 500 Global Plaintiff Lawyers". Lawdragon. 5 April 2024.
  14. ^ "Holloway". www.islington.gov.uk. Islington Council. 22 July 2022. Retrieved 9 December 2024.
  15. ^ Rigby, Lucy (1 April 2015). "Lucy Rigby: Why you should vote Labour in the General Election". The Lincolnite. Retrieved 9 December 2024.
  16. ^ "UK Parliament election results: Election for the constituency of Lincoln on 7 May 2015". UK Parliament. Retrieved 9 December 2024.
  17. ^ "Northampton North - General election results 2024". BBC News. Retrieved 2024-11-22.
  18. ^ "Treasury Committee membership appointed". 29 October 2024.
  19. ^ "Nato Pa".
  20. ^ Odell, Carly (15 November 2024). "Northampton MP appointed to parliamentary role with Ministry of Justice". Northampton Chronicle & Echo. Retrieved 22 November 2024.
  21. ^ "Ministerial appointments: 2 December 2024". GOV.UK. Retrieved 2024-12-02.
  22. ^ "Crown Office". The Gazette. Retrieved 2025-02-11.
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