Rebekah Giles - Partner
Experience and significant reported cases
- Acting on behalf of national sporting bodies in relation to team selection issues, appeals to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, intellectual property disputes and other matters
- Acting in relation to commercial disputes involving international arbitrations
- Acting in litigation in several different countries in relation to the Lloyds of London Names litigation dealing with insurance issues, constitutional appeals and debt recovery
- Acting on behalf of engineers, architects, accountants and solicitors in relation to professional negligence claims
- Acting in relation to ASIC investigations involving the compulsory examination of witnesses
- Acting on behalf of large developers and contractor in relation to claims made under the Building and Construction Industry Security of Payments Act 1999 and quantum meruit claims
- Acting in defamation actions arising from publications in newspapers and radio broadcasts
- Acting on behalf of a well known Research Institute in relation to proceedings arising from the publication of its paper relating to portrayal of children in advertising
Clients
- Construction, engineering and architecture firms
- Insurers
- Developers, builders and building contractors
- Sporting associations
- ASX 100 companies
Professional
- 2001 Supreme Court of New South Wales; Federal and High Courts of Australia
Publications
- Regularly authors case notes and in-house legal education and publications (The Key)
Memberships
- The Association for Women in Insurance (Secretary)
- International Chamber of Commerce
- Australian Insurance Law Association
- Australian Professional Indemnity Group
- Australia Centre for International Commercial Arbitration
- Australasian Forum for International Arbitration

Office
Sydney
Telephone
+61 2 8215 5910
Practice areas
(Note: the links below will take you to the main UK site)
ASIC/APRA Compliance
Sports Law
Media and Defamation law

