Presenters

Liam McKibbin, Senior Solicitor, Legal Aid NSW
Liam McKibbin is a Senior Solicitor in the Centralised Bail Division of Legal Aid NSW, coordinating appearances in Courtroom 6 (Central Coast/Inner West Sydney) and Courtroom 7 (Downing Centre) of the Local Court. Prior to joining Legal Aid, Liam was a Senior Associate at Armstrong Legal, practising across summary and indictable criminal matters throughout NSW and the ACT. He previously served as a Senior Prosecutor with the NSW Police Force for eight years, appearing regularly at Burwood and Downing Centre Local Courts, and began his career as a police officer investigating street-level drug supply at Kings Cross LAC.


Steven Wright, Associate Director Crime (South/West) Legal Aid NSW
Steven commenced at Legal Aid NSW in the graduate program and undertook various positions throughout regional NSW including Coffs Harbour, Port Macquarie and Dubbo. He was the first Solicitor in Charge of the Broken Hill office of Legal Aid NSW. Steven has appeared in key cases and advocated for reform, particularly in relation to the the appropriate use of AVL for conferencing arrestees in remote locations. He continues this work as a Legal Aid representative of the Centralised Bails Advisory Committee. Steven is a keen advocate of Regional and Rural Practice and has been the Vice President and President of the Far West Law Society. In 2023 Steven was a finalist for the NSW Law Society Regional Practitioner of the Year. In 2024 Steven was appointed as the Associate Director of Crime (West and South) taking responsibility for regional and remote offices throughout NSW. He is the coordinator of the Legal Aid Crime Regional Graduate Program designed to intensively train graduate lawyers and then have them use those skills in regional NSW.

Ian Lloyd KC, Barrister, Trust Chambers
Ian Lloyd KC was called to the NSW Bar in 1977. He took silk in 1989. He is also a member of the bar in Hong Kong, New York and England & Wales. Mr Lloyd is one of Sydney’s leading criminal law silks. Mr Lloyd was during the 1980s a Senior Crown Counsel with the Hong Kong Government and in the early 1990s the Senior Crown Prosecutor for NSW. Mr Lloyd is also a former Justice of the Court of Appeal of the Fiji Islands and Conjoint Associate Professor with the University of Newcastle Law School. He has previously lectured in law at the University of Technology, the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the University of Notre Dame, Sydney.