Peter Jopling AM KC
- Commercial Law Employment & Industrial
- Intellectual Property Tort Law
Peter is currently ranked by the legal profession's most highly regarded directories - Chambers and Partners, Best Lawyers and Doyle's Guide as one of Australia's leading commercial law Silks. Peter regularly appears at first instance and appellate level in areas including trade practices, corporations and securities, intellectual property, insurance, equity and trusts, industrial law and professional negligence. He is also a certified arbitrator and accredited mediator of large commercial matters.
Peter has appeared as Senior Counsel both for and against the ACCC most notably as lead counsel for the ACCC in ACCC v Visy Industry Holdings Pty Ltd in which case the Commission obtained a record penalty of $36 million against the company and its director and owner for price fixing and market sharing contraventions of the Trade Practices Act.
He also regularly appears in large-scale complex litigation and class actions in the Federal Court and the Supreme Court, most recently in Guy v Crown Melbourne Limited,Asahi Holdings v Pacific Equity Partners and others, the Oz Minerals class action, the Brisbane RiverCity litigation, Storm Financial v Westpac Bank, Kirby v Centro, Stott v PricewaterhouseCoopers & Centro MCS Manager Ltd, Dawson v Brookfield Multiplex, the Opes Prime litigation and the Patrick Stevedores litigation.
Peter has also appeared for a major financial institution in the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry.
Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards legislation
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Contact
- P03 9225 7617
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Aickin Chambers
Level 28
200 Queen Street
Melbourne VIC 3000
Jane King
03 9225 8558
Expertise
- Appellate
- Banking & Finance
- Bankruptcy
- Building & Construction
- Class Actions
- Commercial Arbitration
- Competition
- Consumer Law
- Contractual Disputes
- Corporate Insolvency
- Corporations & Securities
- Equity & Trusts
- Insurance
- Appellate
- Employment Contracts
- Restraint of Trade
- Appellate
- Class Actions
- Major Torts
- Negligence
- Professional Negligence
Qualifications
Bachelor of Laws (Melb)
Certified Arbitrator - Australian Institute for Commercial Arbitration
Fellow - Australian Institute for Commercial Arbitration
Victoria
State and Territory Courts and Tribunals
Federal Court of Australia
High Court of Australia
Recent Cases
The Banksia Securities proceedings (court appointed Contradictor) a matter concerning a claim for recovery of legal costs and funding commission in a class action, and allegations of misconduct by the litigation funder and legal practitioners for the class in connection with that claim:
Bolitho v Banksia Securities Limited (No 5) [2019] VSC 554
Bolitho v Banksia Securities Ltd (No 6) [2019] VSC 653
Banksia Securities Ltd v Insurance House Pty Ltd (Settlement Approval) [2020] VSC 123
Bolitho v Banksia Securities Ltd (No 8) [2020] VSC 174
Westgem Investments Pty Ltd v Commonwealth Bank of Australia (No 6) [2020] WASC 302
Guy v Crown Melbourne Limited (No 2) [2018] FCA 36
Radhika Oswal v ANZ
Anthony Stevens v Spotless Management Services Pty Ltd [2015] VSC 476
Perpetual Custodians Ltd (as custodian for Tamoran Pty Ltd as trustee for Muchael Crivelli) v IOOF Investment Management Ltd; Murray v Perennial Investment Partners Ltd [2013] NSWCA 231
Bovino Pty Ltd v The Casey Group Holdings Pty Ltd [2010] VSC 391
Permanent Trustee Company Limited v Gulf Import and Export Company & Emirates Trading Agency LLC [2008] VSC 162
Coles Supermarkets Australia Pty Ltd v FKP Limited [2011] FCA 266
Just Group Limited v Nicole Peck [2016] VSC 614
Maritime Union of Australia v Patrick Stevedores Operations Pty Ltd [1998] VSC 282; [1998] VICSC 52
Watson & Ors v Ebsworth & Ebsworth (a firm) & Anor [2010] VSCA 335
Kirby v Centro Properties Limited [2008] FCA 1505; [2010] FCA 1115
Darwalla Milling Co Pty Ltd & Ors v F Hoffman*La Roche Ltd & Ors(No 2) [2006] FCA 1388
Hall v Australian Finance Direct Limited [2005] VSC 306; (No 2) [2007] VSC 233; (No 3) [2007] VSC 366
Guglielmin v Trescowthick (No.4) [2005] FCA 140; (No.2) [2005] FCA 138
Australian Competition & Consumer Commission v Visy Industries [2006] FCA 136; (No 2) [2007] FCA 444; (No 3) [2007] FCA 1617
Memberships
Victorian Bar - Commercial Bar Association
Governor - Florey Neuroscience Institutes
Chair - Ian Potter Museum
Chair - Menzies Foundation