Georgina appears and advises in commercial, common law and public law matters.
Her background is as a commercial property lawyer at Mallesons Stephen Jaques before coming to the Bar in 2003. She has also worked as a commercial litigator in New York, at Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP, and is admitted to the New York Bar.
Georgina researched law and policy in Italy and the USA relating to organised crime and human trafficking as the recipient of the Donald Mackay Winston Churchill fellowship. She was associate counsel to a panel led by US economist Paul Volcker, in an inquiry into fraud and corruption issues at the World Bank in Washington DC. She also worked at the United Nations Food & Agriculture Organization, based in Rome, in internal investigations.
In 2016, 2017 and 2018, she was recognised in the Australian Financial Review in the category of Best Lawyers - Australia, Immigration lawyers.
She was co-editor of the Victorian Bar News for four years, until 2017.
Examples of common law and commercial cases:
Lam v Lam & Ors; Lam v Nguyen & Ors [2017] HCASL 282; Lam v Lam (No 2) [2017] VSCA 247; Lam v Lam [2017] VSCA 173 and Lam v Lam & Ors [2016] VSC 298, counsel for defendants in a Supreme Court trial, on appeal to the Court of Appeal, and on special leave to the High Court, in litigation concerning alleged fraud and forgeries in relation to real properties (with R Howe).
Counsel for an industry superannuation fund in the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry, in 2018.
Majid Karami Kamasaee v The Commonwealth of Australia & Ors (Victorian Supreme Court) member of the counsel team for the plaintiff in the Manus Island class action, which settled in 2017.
Mahood v National Australia Bank & Ballagh [2016] VCC 1957, counsel for NAB in a case concerning allegations of tortious interference with contract.
Klein v National Australia Bank [2016] VSCA 144 and Klein v National Australia Bank [2015] VSC 460, counsel for NAB in a case and appeal concerning allegations of the tort of malicious prosecution.
Director of Consumer Affairs v Nightingale Electrics Pty Ltd [2016] FCA 279, counsel for the respondent in a regulatory matter in the Federal Court concerning consumer products (with T Maxwell).
Examples of migration and public law cases:
AGG17 v Commonwealth of Australia [2018] FCA 242, case involving public interest immunity claims in the context of a proceeding concerning seizure and forfeiture of an alleged bogus document (with A Aleksov).
Shrestha v Minister for Immigration and Border Protection, Ghimire v Minister for Immigration and Border Protection, Acharya v Minister for Immigration and Border Protection [2018] HCA 35, High Court appeal concerning the construction of student visa related legislation (with M Guo).
CPN16 v Minister for Home Affairs [2018] FCA 872, judicial review case concerning translation errors affecting an administrative decision.
BXK15 v Minister for Immigration and Border Protection [2018] FCAFC 76, Full Court appeal in relation to judicial review of a protection visa decision (with E Batroney).
BRF038 v Republic of Nauru [2017] HCA 44, (2017) 349 ALR 67, High Court appeal from the Supreme Court of Nauru (with Dr A McBeth).
ARG15 v Minister for Immigration & Anor [2016] FCAFC 174, (2016) 250 FCR 109, Full Court appeal regarding jurisdictional error in a migration decision concerning refugee and complementary protection claims (with F Batten).
Her appearances in Federal Circuit Court migration cases include: AST16 v Minister for Immigration [2018] FCCA 1850, COU15 v Minister for Immigration [2018] FCCA 838, CBI15 v Minister for Immigration [2018] FCCA 1462, Akouch v Minister for Immigration [2017] FCCA 673, CBH15 v Minister for Immigration [2017] FCCA 2462, Sapkota v Minister for Immigration [2016] FCCA 2837, MZZWW v Minister for Immigration [2014] FCCA 2811 and Zhu v Minister for Immigration [2013] FCCA 1490.
From 08 Apr 2010, liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards legislation.
