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12 Gough Square
London EC4A 3DW
(00 44) 20 7665 5000 ph
(00 44) 20 7665 5001 fax
igubbay@hausfeldllp.com
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Ingrid Gubbay is the European Head of Human Rights & Environmental Law at Hausfeld & Co LLP. Ingrid practices competition litigation, and leads the London Consumer and Human Rights law practices, acting and advising a number of international NGO’s and charities, in actions including, on climate justice, the BskyB/Newscorp bid, and Indigenous land disputes with corporations. Prior to joining the firm, she was an Associate at the UK Financial Services Authority and later principal legal advisor of campaigns, at the largest Consumer Association in Europe, Which?
During her time at Which?, Ingrid worked closely with EU and UK regulators and enforcers, and conducted litigation under new collective action statutory powers including the UK’s first competition representative action for damages on behalf of consumers: JJB Sports v Consumer Association (1078/7/9/07).
Ingrid has had a distinguished background in practice in Australia, where she worked with Australian Indigenous communities in setting up legal outreach offices and advocacy, and was head of consumer litigation for the Legal Aid Commission (NSW), running test cases and collective actions. In 2009, on the 30th anniversary of the (“LAC”), her small team were awarded ‘most outstanding achievement in 30 years’ for a flood insurance case involving thousands of declined claimants against 8 major insurers, which ultimately led to the appointment of the Australian Insurance Ombudsman.
Ingrid has written and presented on private enforcement for damages in competition/antitrust law, and lectured at the University of New South Wales, Australia, and the University of Essex, in tort, administrative and international human rights law. She has worked in China as part of a select EU delegation of human rights ‘experts’, and in 2004, she was consultant on the landmark UK Court of Appeal case of “B” & ORS V FCO on the question of whether and in what circumstances the Human Rights Act 1998, British Diplomatic and Consular officials are to afford diplomatic protection to fugitives whose fundamental rights are under threat.
She is a member of the British Institute of International and Comparative law (BIICL) and was an appointed member of the comparative law group of the UK Civil Justice Council (working on collective actions) from 2006-2009 and is a member of the UK solicitors international human rights group (SIHG).
