Sir Harry Gibbs CJ

Sir Harry Talbot Gibbs PC AC GCMC QC served as a Justice of the High Court of Australia for more than 16 years (1970–87), rising to the office of Chief Justice from 1981 to 1987. As a judge of exemplary ability and integrity, with no political affiliations, Sir Harry Gibbs played a key role in maintaining public confidence in the High Court during this challenging period of controversy and change. 

Speaker David Jackson AM QC leads New Chambers in NSW. His principal areas of practice are appellate, constitutional, commercial, common, public and administrative, taxation and revenue law, equity, arbitration and mediation. 

He was an associate to Sir Harry Gibbs while he was a judge of the Supreme Court of Queensland. He was called to the Bar in 1964, appointed Queen’s Counsel in 1976 and worked in private practice in Brisbane until 1985 when he was appointed a Judge of the Federal Court of Australia (1985–87).

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