Peter Aloysius McInerney QC (1927–2014) was an Australian barrister and New South Wales Supreme Court judge.
Forebears had farmed in the Southern Tablelands for more than 150 years, and Peter grew up on the family property, Moonyah, near Collector.
[1] After graduation, McInerney commenced as an associate to New South Wales Supreme Court judges John Clancy and Cyril Walsh.
He was admitted to the New South Wales Bar in 1955 and practised from Selborne Chambers focussing on common and criminal law.
He represented many clients in the Newcastle and Broken Hill regions in industrial injury matters and appeared in a number of cases for battered women accused of murdering their husbands.