Georgina Costello QC appears in a broad range of areas, including:

• property law
• contract law
• fraud and corruption related cases
• administrative law
• professional liability, torts, nuisance and insurance matters
• regulatory proceedings
• class actions (for example she appeared the Manus Island and Robodebt class actions)
• Royal Commissions (for example she acted for clients in the Bush Fires, Banking and Lawyer X Royal Commissions)

Her legal career began at Mallesons Stephen Jaques where she was a property lawyer before coming to the Bar in 2003.  She has continued to work in the area of property law as a barrister since then.

Her recent cases include:

2021

• Director, Consumer Affairs Victoria v Vic Solar Pty Ltd (No 2) [2021] FCA 26, consumer law case in the context of door to door sales of solar panels and inverters.
• C & F Nominees Mortgage Securities Ltd v Karbotli [2021] VSCA 134, property law appeal involving a fraudulent mortgage and indefeasibility provisions.
• Beckstead & Beckstead [2021] FedCFamC2F 136, case about the enforceability of a "pre-nup" contract in circumstances where independent legal advice was not provided.
• Dadashy v Scholte [2021] VSC 246, judicial reivew of a County Court criminal conviction.
• Su and Minister for Immigration, Citizenship, Migrant Services and Multicultural Affairs (Citizenship) [2021] AATA 912, case regarding the Australian citizenship of a foreign born child adopted as a newborn by an Australian mother and see Su and Minister (Citizenship) [2020] AATA 590. 
• Fire Rescue Commissioner v Building Appeals Board [2021] VSC 217, judicial review of a fire safety decision.
• Chetcuti v Commonwealth of Australia [2021] HCA 25, Constitutional case regarding the aliens power.
• DVO16 v Minister for Immigration and Border Protection; BNB17 v Miniser for Immigration and Border Protection [2021] HCA 12, High Court appeal regarding impact of interpreter errors in a migration case.

2020

• Minister for Home Affairs v DUA16; Minister for Home Affairs v CHK16 [2020] HCA 46, High Court appeal regarding the impact of fraud in a migration case.
• Bald Hills Wind Farm Pty Ltd v South Gippsland Shire Council [2020] VSC 512, judicial review of a Council decision about nuisance and a wind farm.
• Acting for a former member of the Victoria Police in the Lawyer X Royal Commission.
• Full Joy Foods Pty Ltd v Australian Dairy Park Pty Ltd [2020] VSC 672, case regarding setting aside a commercial arbitration.
• Acting for the plantiffs in the Robodebt class action.
• Australian Education City v Victorian Planning Authority [2020] VSC 177, judicial review of a decision made by Cabinet regarding a major project.

Also admitted to the New York Bar, she worked in New York City as a commercial litigator at US law firm Fried Frank Harris Shriver and Jacobson LLP in 2006-2007.  In 2007-2008, she worked for the World Bank in Washington DC and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization in Italy, on matters related to fraud, misconduct and corruption investigations.

Georgina Costello has been recognised in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021 in Best Lawyers – Australia, Immigration Law. 

She has an interest in law and policy related to human trafficking and has done research in that area in the USA and Italy as a Winston Churchill Fellow. 

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From 08 Apr 2010, liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards legislation.