Phillip Gibson

Phillip Gibson

Phillip Gibson worked in the Attorney General’s Department for over ten years before joining private practice. He joined his current firm in 1995 and has been a partner since 1997. He is the longest serving partner of the largest private criminal law practice in NSW.
Phillip is accredited by the Law Society of New South Wales as a Criminal Law Specialist and is a member of the Criminal Law Specialists Advisory Committee. He has been a member of the Law Society Criminal Law Committee since 2002 and he regularly presents criminal law seminars to the legal profession.

Phillip practices only in criminal law. He regularly appears in the Local, District, Supreme and Children’s Courts. He has extensive experience in the Coroners Court having appeared in a number of long running matters in that jurisdiction. Phillip has many years experience appearing at other specialist jurisdictions like the Parole Authority, Court of Criminal Appeal, ICAC, Royal Commissions, NSW Crime Commission and Supreme Court Applications under the Crimes (Serious Sex Offenders) Act.

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Heading out tomorrow night - watch your mouth*

Heading out tomorrow night - watch your mouth*

30 Dec 09 * Warning - this post contains offensive language (actually, it depends a bit on your definition of “offensive”). F***, f***,…... Read more

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