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

• property law
• fraud and corruption related cases
• administrative law
• professional liability, torts, nuisance and insurance matters
• regulatory proceedings, particularly regarding consumer law and product safety
• 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.

Since taking silk in 2019, her cases have included:

• consumer law: 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
• migration law: 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
• common law/ judicial review: Bald Hills Wind Farm Pty Ltd v South Gippsland Shire Council [2020] VSC 512, judicial review of a Council decision about nuisance and wind farm
• constutional law: Chetcuti v Commonwealth of Australia [2020] HCA 42, constitutional law case regarding the aliens power
• arbitration law: Full Joy Foods Pty Ltd v Australian Dairy Park Pty Ltd [2020] VSC 672, case regarding setting aside a commercial arbitration
• judicial review: 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, Georgina 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.

Since 2019, Georgina has been Chair of the Law Council of Australia's migration law committee. She has been recognised in the Australian Financial Review in 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020 through inclusion in Best Lawyers – Australia, Immigration Law. In 2020 she was voted 2020-2021 Lawyer of the Year, Immigration – Melbourne, as peer reviewed.  

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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