Date of Admission:
07 May 2001
Date Appointed Silk:
23 Oct 2019
Qualifications:
BA, LLB (Hons) from Melbourne University
Previous Occupation:
Solicitor at Mallesons Stephen Jaques
Accepts briefs from in-house counselProfile:
Georgina Costello SC appears in trials, appeals and judicial review applications in a broad range of areas, including:
- professional liability, torts and insurance matters
- property law
- administrative law
- proceeds of crime matters
- regulatory proceedings
- cases about fraud/ forgeries
- class actions
Georgina was at Mallesons Stephen Jaques for three years - mainly as a property lawyer - before coming to the Bar in 2003.
Admitted to the New York Bar, she worked as a commercial litigator at US law firm Fried Frank Harris Shriver and Jacobson LLP.
She also 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.
She is Chair of the Law Council of Australia's migration law committee and has researched law and policy related to human trafficking in the USA and Italy as a Winston Churchill Fellow.
Matters she has worked on at the Bar include the Manus Island class action, the Robodebt class action, a number of Royal Commissions and several civil fraud trials.
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