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• Peter has an extensive commercial law practice. He has appeared in a number of long and complex matters, including at the appellate stage. He acts in and advises in connection with substantial commercial matters in areas of administrative law, contracts, corporations and securities law, equity and trusts, insolvency, insurance law, intellectual property, landlord and tenant, product liability, professional negligence, property law, trade practices and wills and estates.
• Peter has appeared in and advised in connection with a number of class actions, including securities actions involving managed investment schemes (including recently Banksia, Willmott, Great Southern), product liability and environmental law.
• Doyles Guide – Leading or recommended Professional Indemnity Senior Counsel 2020, 2021, 2022, 2025
• Peter accepts briefs as a mediator.
• A selection of reports of cases he has recently appeared in are:

Tex Onsite Pty Ltd v Cornwalls [2026] VSC 482 (30 July 2026)

Costs in claim for proportionate liability

De Kretser Pty Ltd v De Kretser [2026] FCA 779 (19 June 2026)

Interlocutory injunction to restrain breach of directors duties

Bell v Lewis [2026] SASC 67 (8 May 2026)

Preliminary point on separate trial regarding an indemnity

Sekler v Sekler (No 7) [2026] FedCFamC1 F82 (13 February 2026)

Waiver of privilege

Sheer v Jeffreys (No 2) [2025] NSWSC 1557 (15 December 2025)

Contempt for alleged breach of freezing order

Mulcahy & Co Accounting Services Pty Ltd v Porter [2025] VSCA 261 (29 October 2025)

Appeal on damages involving causation of loss

Ma v Xu [2025] VSC 361 (20 June 2025)

Contract involving loan from mother to son

LL UP Pty Ltd v Kegland Distribution Pty Ltd (No 2) [2024] VSC 801 (20 December 2024)

Oppression where claimed shares held on trust

Shearman v Techin MBS Pty Ltd [2025] FCA 1243 (14 October 2024)

Termination of contract for sale of apartment off the plan

Australian Securities Ltd v Victorian Managed Insurance Authority [2024] VSC 542 (6 September 2024)

Domestic Building Insurance – right of financier to recovery indemnity

Carl Finance Pty Ltd v Argent Law Pty Ltd [2024] VSC 424 (22 July 2024)

Recitals in deed created binding obligations

Independent Tube Mills Pty Ltd (in liq) v Corplex Pty Ltd [2024] VSC 267 (24 May 2024)

Subrogation and assignability in insurance

Porter & Anor v Mulcahy & Co Accounting Services Pty Ltd & Ors (No 6) [2024] VSC 171 (10 April 2024)

Election between remedies

Porter & Anor v Mulcahy & Co Accounting Services Pty Ltd & Ors (No 5) [2024] VSC 6 (25 January 2024)

Remedies: damages and account of profits

Zhang v Zhang & Anor [2024] VSC 3 (16 January 2024)

Cross-vesting – removal from Supreme Court of Victoria to Federal Court of Australia

Sun v Sunshine International Australia Pty Ltd [2023] VSC 696 (29 November 2023)

Shareholder oppression

Mikkelsen v Li [2023] VSCA 255 (26 October 2023)

Misleading and deceptive conduct and contributory negligence

Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards Legislation