Ingrid Gubbay

Experience

Environmental & Product Liability

• Issued a claim on behalf of a group of Zambian villagers against Vedanta Resources Limited and Konkola Copper Mines plc, in respect of the contamination of the waterways caused by their mining operation.
• Developed the drafting of the legal Communication submitted on behalf of 16 youth petitioners to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child, led by teenage activist Greta Thunberg.
• Drafted a comprehensive Guide for WWF UK’s 5-year plan regarding Climate Change and Children: litigation and campaign options, working with Essex and Strathclyde Universities.
• Obtained settlement for 500 former workers in India following mercury contamination.
• Led Hausfeld London’s legal project against air pollution.
• Assisted communities affected by hydropower dam builds in Northern Iraq and Brazil.
• Provided comprehensive advice to Pacific Small Island States on climate litigation/arbitration options.
• Advised on threats to customary owned land by palm oil operators in Liberia.
• Advised communities poisoned by lead smelting works in Kazakhstan.
• Acting on behalf Daze Aghaji and Peter Garforth to hold the Government to account for its failures to adopt adequate policies to combat climate change through bringing a Judicial Review in relation to the Government's carbon budgets.
• Hausfeld acted for Save the Children in their intervention in Duarte Agostinho & 5 Others v Portugal & 32 Others before the European Court of Human Rights, highlighting the impact of climate change on children and on their right to safety/prosperous future.
• Acting for Mums for Lungs, Students for Global Health, The Good Law Project and UK Youth Climate Coalition challenging the UK government to review its Clean Air Strategy in light of emerging links between air quality and the incidence and severity of COVID-19.

Human Rights

• Led the legal campaign to end #PeriodPoverty, teaming up with Crowd Justice, Free Periods and the Red Box Project.
• Acted in two high profile judicial reviews on behalf of Avaaz - the first related to resisting the Murdoch family’s bid for BSKYB news (one of the drivers leading to the Leveson Inquiry) and the second related to the Murdoch family’s bid for Sky and the question of whether Sky would remain ‘fit and proper’ to hold a broadcasting licence if 100% owned by 21st Century Fox.
• Assisted Masai villages affected by tourism operators on their land in Tanzania.
• Advised local communities in South America and South Africa in their disputes with mine operators.
• Acted for the CEO of a disability aviation charity, in relation to a disability discrimination claim against Carnival PLC t/a Cunard.