PROFESSIONAL BIOGRAPHY

Peter Chandra LL.M. (Notary) Name: Peter Chandra LL.M. (Notary)
Position: Legal Practitioner Director

Telephone: 1300 799 888
Facsimile: 1300 668 880

"Peter Chandra’s mission is to achieve success for clients, LAC Lawyers Pty Ltd and everyone at LAC Lawyers Pty Ltd through honesty, sincerity, integrity, promptness and excellence in provision of legal services and administration."

Peter has practised as a legal practitioner for 20 years having practised at a major national law firm for about 11 years prior to joining LAC Lawyers Pty Ltd.

Areas of Legal practice that Peter has undertaken work in are:

  • All Migration matters including appearances before the MRT and Federal and High Courts as necessary
  • Aviation products liability including hangarkeepers’ liability, aviation regulators’ and service providers’ liability e.g. air traffic controllers’ liability, airport owners’ liability, aircraft (fixed and rotary wing) and aircraft component manufacturers’ liability; aircraft owners and charterers liability; general aviation law, litigation
  • Business and Commercial Law including litigation
  • Family Law including defacto relationships, prenuptial agreements, litigation, mediation
  • Insurance Law including large scale claims management, bordereaux management over a decade, insurance policy advice, recovery of funds under insurer’s rights of subrogation
  • Product Liability and Public Liability Law – for plaintiffs and insurers including food, consumer products and occupiers’ liability, Trade Practices and common law
  • Professional Indemnity Law involving architects, builders and other professions
  • Advising foreign law firms on Australian Law of torts, products liability and damages
  • Drafting Notarising and apostillising documents


Qualifications

  • Master of Laws (UTS Sydney)
  • Diploma in Law (NSW – SAB)
  • Graduate Diploma in Export (Australian Institute of Export)
  • Business Management Certificate (TAFE NSW)
  • Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice (College of Law NSW)
  • Avionics Electronics Certificate (Department of Civil Aviation, Brisbane Australia)

Memberships

  • Law Society of New South Wales
  • Australian Society of Air Safety Investigators ( plus ISASI)
  • Aviation Law Association of Australia & New Zealand
  • Defense Research Institute (USA)
  • Australian Institute of Export (NSW)

Admitted to

  • Supreme Court of New South Wales
  • Supreme Court of Queensland
  • Supreme Court of Victoria
  • All Federal Courts in Australia including High Court of Australia

Registered to Practice in

  • New South Wales
  • Queensland
  • Victoria

Language Skills

  • Hindi

Articles Written

Migration & Immigration Law - Onshore Visa Application Possible Despite Another Substantive Visa Refusal or Cancellation

Date: September 14, 2009
Authors:Peter Chandra LL.M. (Notary)