Peter Agardy

B.Comm; LL.M(Melb).
Peter Agardy
  • Chambers: Floor 4, Room 416, ODCW
  • Year Admitted: 1977
  • Year Signed Bar Roll: 22nd May 2003
  • Admitted to Practice in: Victoria, New South Wales, Federal Jurisdictions.
  • Phone: (03) 9225 7449
  • Mobile: 0418 149442
  • Facsimile: (03) 9225 6046
  • E-Mail: agardy@vicbar.com.au
  • Areas of Practice
    • Banking and Finance
    • Bankruptcy/Insolvency
    • Commercial Law
    • Contract
    • Corporations (Company) Law
    • Equity & Trusts
    • Mediation : Accredited Mediator

Peter was formerly a partner of Cornwall Stodart. His areas of expertise are insolvency and commercial disputes.

Peter worked as an auditor with Deloittes for a short time before doing his articles with Middletons, where he remained as an employee solicitor for a further year. He then joined Strongman & Crouch as an employee solicitor, becoming a partner in 1982. Peter joined Cornwall Stodart as a partner in 1991, where he remained until he joined the Bar in May 2003.

Peter is well known for his insolvency expertise and has acted regularly for trustees in bankruptcy, liquidators, receivers, creditors and administrators of companies.

He is a member and former national chairman of the Insolvency and Reconstruction Committee of the Law Council of Australia, and a member of the Editorial Board of the Insolvency Law Journal.

Peter authored the chapter on bankruptcy investigations in Laws of Australia and has represented the Law Council of Australia in Senate Committee hearings.

The articles Peter has published in the Insolvency Law Journal are;

  • Controllers' Duties on Sale:Section 420A of the Corporations Law
  • Bankruptcy: A Legal Practitioner's Perspective
  • Applications by Insolvency Practitioners to the Court for Directions (1999)
  • Voluntary Administrators' Reports
  • Administrators,Trading and Risk
  • Who Wants to be a Deemed Director?
  • Aspects of Trading Trust
  • The Purchase Money Resulting Trust
  • Mediation and the Insolvency Practitioner.
  • Applications by Insolvency Practitioners to the Court for Directions (2011)

Some reported cases of significance in which Peter has been briefed are;

  • Pattison v Hadjimouratis (2006) 236 ALR 1 - appeal to full court of the Federal Court relating to annulment of bankruptcy
  • Re Stockford (subject to deed of company arrangement) (2004) 52 ACSR 279- fixing of remuneration of administrator
  • Re Mento Developments (Aust) Pty Ltd (in liquidation)- application by liquidator for directions in relation to disputed claims
  • Peter appeared for a party in a 12 day case in the Guardianship List at VCAT which included complex personal and financial issues  - the details are confidential.

Peter is a Nationally Accredited Mediator under the Australian National Mediator Accreditation Scheme and a member of the Victorian Bar Dispute Resolution Committee.He has been appointed Mediator in a wide range of disputes.