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Liza M Powderly
LL.B BA


Chambers: Floor 1: Room 11: Building ODCW
Admitted: 25th Feb 2004
Signed Bar Roll: 29th Apr 2004
Admitted to Practice in: Victoria, New South Wales, .
Phone: 9225 8850
Fax: 9225 8450
Mobile: 0400 500 138
E-Mail: lpowderly@vicbar.com.au
Booking Contact: richowells@vicbar.com.au

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Profile:

Liza appears and advises in commercial matters, principally in property law, corporations law, insolvency law, equity and trusts, and wills and estates.

Liza has trial and appellate experience and has appeared in the Supreme Court, Court of Appeal, the High Court, County Court, Federal Court, Magistrates’ Courts and VCAT.

Liza is a member of the Commercial Bar Association and the Bar Library Committee, a past member of the Bar Council and a former assistant secretary of the Corporations and Securities Committee.

Liza has been a reporter for the Victorian Reports since 2004. In 2010, Liza was the editor of publications for the Victorian Women Lawyers and in 2006 edited Kaufman J, McNab S and Were D, Probate Practice Manual, a publication on the law of wills and probate in Australia.
Prior to coming to the Bar, Liza was an Associate to the Honourable Justice Byrne of the Supreme Court of Victoria.

Liza has appeared in the following -

Xie v Crisp & Ors [2011] VSC 154 (20 April 2011).
Rosenberg & Anor v Fifteenth Eestin Nominees Pty Ltd & Ors (No 2) [2010] VSC 38 (24 February 2010).
Kay Group Holdings Pty Ltd & Ors v K & K Plastics Pty Ltd & Ors [2008] VSC 169 (23 May 2008).
Kay Group Holdings Pty Ltd & Ors v K & K Plastics Pty Ltd & Ors [2008] VSC 500 (21 November 2008).
Buckle v Reeve (Civil Claims) [2006] VCAT 2606 (18 October 2006).


From 01/07/2008,
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