Maurice Blackburn

Key practice areas: Class Actions & Major Projects
Other areas: Public Liability
Qualifications: LLB, Bachelor of Social Work
Location: Sydney (NSW)

Rebecca Gilsenan's practice focuses on class actions in the areas of price fixing, failed investment schemes and product liability.

Rebecca's major cases have included:

• a class action against Amcor Limited and Visy Board Pty Ltd resulting in $95 million settlement for thousands of victims of the companies price fixing and market rigging conduct
• a series of class actions regarding failed heart devices
• a class action regarding failed knee implants
• landmark litigation for a child immigration detainee against the Commonwealth and detention centre operators regarding the child's treatment in immigration detention
• a constitutional challenge in the High Court
• a class action regarding investments in a property trust, and
• a group action for investors in a failed property investment scheme.

She is currently working on:

• a test case about whether human genes can be patented, and
• a product liability class action.

Rebecca also acts for Greenpeace Australia Pacific Limited.

Rebecca also been a contributor on legal matters with various media outlets.  In 2011, Rebecca was a weekly contributor and blogger with The Daily Telegraph newspaper.  In 2012, Rebecca joined Network Ten's new national morning television program called Breakfast as their weekly expert on legal matters.