Wednesday, 8 October 2025
Chair
Dauid Sibtain SC, Level 22 Chambers, Preeminent Technology, Media & Telecommunications Senior Counsel, Doyle’s Guide 2025
Serious harm’ and other interlocutory and trial case management issues
The ‘serious harm’ requirement under defamation reforms has reshaped interlocutory strategy and case management. Gain insight from The Honourable Judge Judith Gibson into the evolving challenges of defamation litigation, including threshold issues, trial preparation, and judicial expectations. Learn how courts are handling complex interlocutory disputes, procedural efficiency, and media-specific trial considerations across Australian jurisdictions.
Presented by The Honourable Judith Gibson, Judge, New South Wales District Court
Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD unit in Substantive Law
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
Presenters
Dauid Sibtain SC, Level 22 Chambers
With over 25 years’ experience at the Bar, Dauid maintains an expansive practice, with particular expertise in media, building and construction, commercial, and intellectual property matters. His considerable experience as a trial and appellate advocate before both judges and juries, has seen him appear in significant litigation in the High Court of Australia, New South Wales Court of Appeal and in other superior courts. He is regularly engaged to appear in urgent applications and frequently advises and appears for high profile clients, on instruction from both solicitors in private practice and directly from in-house corporate legal departments. Dauid was recognised as Preeminent Counsel in 2022, and as Leading and Recommended Counsel between 2018 and 2021, in Doyle’s Guide for Leading Technology, Media & Telecommunications Junior Counsel, NSW. He was also recognised in 2022 as Recommended Counsel in Doyle’s Guide for Leading Intellectual Property Junior Counsel, NSW and as a leading trade mark professional in World Trademark Review between 2016 and 2019.
The Honourable Judith Gibson, Judge, New South Wales District Court
Judge Gibson is the Defamation List Judge for the District Court of New South Wales and a member of the advisory committee assisting the Department of Justice’s current review of the uniform defamation legislation. Judge Gibson is a contributing author to Australian Defamation Law and Practice (LexisNexis) and the author of the Defamation chapter in the Judicial Commission’s Benchbook.
