Presenters

Senior Deputy Registrar Peter Onisforou, Deputy Registrar, Supreme Court of New South Wales
Peter was appointed as a Registrar of the Supreme Court of New South Wales in August 2022. He is a Registered Trust and Estate Practitioner with the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP), and having completed all requirements, awaits conferral of a Master of Laws (Applied Law) majoring in Wills and Estates. Peter is a Qualified Mediator, having completed training facilitated by Resolution Institute and received certification from the Chief Justice of New South Wales. He is also a Member of the Law Society’s Elder Law, Capacity and Succession Committee. Prior to his appointment as a Registrar, Peter was a Solicitor for the NSW Trustee and Guardian, focusing on family provision and contested probate litigation, complex probate and intestate entitlement, and estate and trust administration.


Kim Boettcher, Barrister, Frederick Jordan Chambers
Kim is a Barrister at Frederick Jordan Chambers in Sydney. Kim practises in Equity, Common Law, Protective and Guardianship Law, and in the Probate and Succession List. Prior to coming to the Bar, she practised as a Solicitor in commercial and civil litigation law in England and Wales, New South Wales and Queensland. More recently, she was a Solicitor at the Seniors Rights Service, an independent legal centre and regularly attended the UN Open-ended Working Group on Ageing in New York as a civil society representative. Kim was appointed to the NSW Minister of Fair Trading's Retirement Villages Advisory Council in 2013 and also to the Minister's Expert Committee on Retirement Villages Standard Contract Terms and Disclosure Documents in 2011. Kim was a Member of the inaugural Legal Services Council in 2014 and reappointed from 2017-2020. She is a past Treasurer of the International Commission of Jurists Australia and was appointed to the NSW Bar Association’s Succession and Protective Law Committee in 2021, 2022 and 2023.