Practice / Barrister
Advocacy and advice.
Peter Travis is a commercial barrister specialising in banking and finance litigation and representing parties in regulatory enforcement proceedings.
Banking and finance
Peter specialises in banking and finance litigation, which applies the general law of contract, equity and property, together with consumer-protection and credit-regulation statutes, to credit disputes involving the enforcement of mortgages, guarantees and securities, and contests over caveats and priorities.
Banking and finance barrister
A banking and finance barrister advises and represents parties in disputes over money lent and secured, including the enforcement of loans, guarantees, mortgages and other securities, and the application of statutes that regulate credit.
- Loan & facility enforcement
- Guarantee recovery & guarantor defences
- Mortgagee powers, receivers & possession
- Penalties & default interest disputes
- Unconscionable conduct claims & defences
- Unfair contract terms
- Statutory demands & winding up
- Consumer credit & the National Credit Code
- Credit licensing disputes
- Finance broker liability
- Farm debt
- PPSA & priority disputes
A selection of banking & finance decisions
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Regulatory enforcement
Peter represents and advises parties, including alleged accessories, at every stage of regulatory enforcement, from pre-proceeding investigations and examinations to final hearings on liability and penalty. Peter also advises on regulatory compliance, including design and distribution obligations, target market determinations, responsible lending obligations, and unfair contract terms.
Regulatory enforcement barrister
A regulatory enforcement barrister advises and represents parties in investigations or proceedings initiated by regulators, such as ASIC or the ACCC, concerning potential contraventions of statutory obligations that could result in pecuniary penalties, injunctions, banning orders or other measures against a party.
Representing parties in enforcement proceedings
- Civil penalty proceedings
- ACMA & Spam Act enforcement
- Credit licensing disputes
- National Credit Code contraventions
- Responsible lending contraventions
- DDO and TMD contraventions
- Unfair contract term contraventions
- Knowing involvement
- Banning & disqualification proceedings
Responding to notices and examinations
- Compulsory examinations under s 19 of the ASIC Act
- Notices to produce books under ss 30 and 33 of the ASIC Act
- Written-statement notices under s 912C of the Corporations Act
- Notices under s 49 of the NCCP Act
- ACCC information notices under s 155 of the Competition and Consumer Act
- Claims of privilege and the use of compelled answers
A selection of regulatory enforcement decisions
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Commercial litigation
Peter is briefed almost exclusively in commercial disputes, regularly acting in claims involving minority shareholder oppression, breaches of directors’ duties, restraints of trade, and misleading or deceptive conduct.
- Commercial barrister
- A commercial barrister advises and represents parties in commercial disputes, often concerning the interpretation of contracts, enforcement of shareholder rights, breaches of trust, and claims of misleading or unconscionable conduct.
- Contractual disputes
- Corporations & shareholder disputes
- Equitable claims & remedies
- Misleading or deceptive conduct
- Guarantees & securities
- Trusts & fiduciary duties
- Statutory demands & insolvency
- Injunctions
- Freezing orders & urgent relief
- Restraints of trade
- Confidential information & trade secrets
- Breach of directors’ duties
A selection of commercial litigation decisions
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To brief Peter to appear, advise or mediate, please contact Barry Klopper, senior clerk at Hemmant’s List.