Hassiba is a Senior Associate in Moray & Agnew’s Victorian Medical Negligence team. She has more than 12 years’ post admission experience across private practice, defendant insurance and the public sector, acting in complex litigation, regulatory investigations and high-risk disputes.
Experience & expertise
Hassiba is recognised for her ability to analyse complex legal, factual and evidentiary issues and provide clear, practical and commercially focused advice. She has extensive experience managing litigation risk, conducting investigations, advising on statutory and regulatory frameworks, and resolving complex disputes in sensitive and high-pressure environments.
She is fluent in Dari and Pashto and is committed to building strong relationships with clients, insurers, health practitioners and key stakeholders.
Hassiba’s experience includes:
- Defendant medical negligence claims
- Complex litigation and dispute resolution
- Regulatory investigations and enforcement proceedings
- Evidence analysis and liability assessment
- Statutory interpretation and administrative decision making
- Personal injury litigation
- Criminal law and child protection matters
- Litigation strategy, stakeholder management and risk mitigation
- Mentoring junior lawyers and supervising legal teams
Hassiba regularly advises clients on risk management, litigation strategy, procedural issues and dispute resolution, delivering practical and commercially focused outcomes.
Work highlights
- Managing complex and high-value litigation matters involving significant legal, reputational and commercial risk
- Advising insurers, government agencies and private sector clients on liability, risk exposure and strategic dispute management
- Conducting detailed analysis of complex factual and expert evidence to support litigation and regulatory outcomes
- Managing matters involving multiple stakeholders, experts, regulators and external counsel
- Leading multidisciplinary teams and mentoring junior practitioners across a range of litigation and regulatory matters
- Developing and implementing streamlined processes to improve matter management and service delivery
- Providing strategic advice in sensitive matters involving medical negligence, personal injury, regulatory investigations and child protection issues.
Professional background
Bachelor of Laws (LLB)
2009, University of Melbourne
Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice
2012, The College of Law
Bachelor of Science (Genetics)
2009, University of Melbourne
Law Institute of Victoria
Muslim Legal Network
