Phillip Gibson - Criminal Law Specialist

Phillip Gibson worked in the Attorney General’s Department for over ten years before joining private practice. He joined the firm in 1995 and has been a partner since 1997.

Phillip is accredited by the Law Society of New South Wales as a Criminal Law Specialist and is a past Chairman 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 was a member of the Criminal Justice Sexual Offences Taskforce and in 2010 travelled to the United States with Supreme and District Court Judges, Magistrates and academics to observe specialist sex offence courts. He has acted for hundreds of clients charged with sexual offences.

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.

Phillip can be contacted for urgent legal advice 24/7 on 0414 933 167.