Georgina Costello SC appears in trials, appeals and judicial review applications in a broad range of areas, including:

• property law, particularly regarding leases, land sales and fraudulent transactions 
• statutory construction and administrative law
• professional liability, torts, nuisance and insurance matters
• regulatory proceedings, particularly regarding consumer law and product safety
• class actions 

Her legal career began at Mallesons Stephen Jaques where she was a property lawyer before coming to the Bar in 2003.

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. 

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.

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. 

Notable cases she has worked on include class actions, Royal Commissions, property and fraud related trials, proceeds of crime matters,  judicial review matters and High Court appeals.

She was appointed Senior Counsel in Victoria in 2019.

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