Kevin Gibbons

Background

Gibbons's documented background is rooted in Sydney, where he completed university study before entering legal practice in Australia. He was admitted to the bar in 1981, and his later professional life has remained centred on Sydney.

Education

Gibbons studied at the University of Sydney, where he received a Bachelor of Arts. The university was founded in 1850 by an act of the New South Wales Parliament and is the oldest university in Australia.

Its founding principles were religious tolerance and the admission of students on academic merit, with students matriculating by passing an academic examination. Teaching opened in 1852 with a focus on classics, sciences and mathematics, and the first degrees were awarded in 1856. In 1881 the university became one of the first in the world to admit women.

Career

Gibbons was a partner of Phillips Fox, a national Australian business law firm with a Sydney office. The firm's Australian practice was later absorbed into the global firm DLA Piper in 2011, when the DLA Phillips Fox name was closed.

Gibbons was admitted to the bar in Australia in 1981, and his later work centred on insurance and liability law. In 2009 Indemnity Corporation, a risk specialist, added a legal division to serve its insurance broker clients, and Gibbons and Natalie Taylor were recruited to run it. The practice, known as Indemnity Legal, handles insurance law and litigation, occupational health and safety, local government and environment litigation, and contract review.

The Australian Consulting Surveyors Insurance Society, known as ACSIS, provides professional indemnity insurance for land and cadastral surveyors. Indemnity Legal is accredited by ACSIS to provide hotline legal services to members on contract review and general legal questions. As principal, Gibbons has acted on instructions of ACSIS insurers in litigated claims against members in New South Wales for more than 35 years.

The firm's website describes Gibbons as an accredited mediator with a career spanning 43 years. It says he has acted in many significant insurance and liability cases, presented at industry conferences and contributed to notable insurance publications.

Works

• manual

  • Liability Risk Manual

    (Co-authored the Liability Risk Manual published for surve...)

References

• Indemnity Legal Firm website describing Gibbons as principal and mediator, his insurance and liability work, and his co-authorship of an ACSIS manual.
• ACSIS & Indemnity Legal Network Insurance House page describing Gibbons as principal of Indemnity Legal and his work for ACSIS insurers in New South Wales.
• Indemnitycorp launches legal practice insuranceNEWS.com.au report on Indemnity Corporation's new legal division, which Gibbons and Natalie Taylor were recruited to run.