Georgina Costello Portrait 2019

Georgina Costello SC

Bar roll 2003 Silk 2019
  • Commercial Law Tort Law
  • Public Law
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Georgina Costello SC appears and advises in commercial and property matters, common law cases involving negligence and nuisance claims, regulatory and administrative law matters, and proceeds of crime matters.

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 and migration cases

     - proceeds of crime matters

     - regulatory proceedings

     - cases about fraud/ forgeries

Georgina did articles at Mallesons Stephen Jaques in 2000 and was a property lawyer there before coming to the Bar in 2003.  She was appointed Silk in and for the State of Victoria in 2019.

She is admitted to the New York Bar, and worked 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 then the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization in Italy, on matters related to fraud, misconduct and corruption investigations.

Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards legislation 

Contact

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Chambers & Clerk

Aickin Chambers
Level 29 Room 4

200 Queen Street 
Melbourne VIC 3000 

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Jane King

03 9225 8558

Expertise

Commercial Law
  • Appellate
  • Building & Construction
  • Contractual Disputes
  • Corporations & Securities
  • Equity & Trusts
  • Insurance
  • Real Property
  • Superannuation
Tort Law
  • Class Actions
  • Negligence
  • Professional Negligence
Public Law
  • Administrative Law
  • Appellate
  • Freedom of Information
  • Immigration
  • Judicial Review

Qualifications

Qualifications

Bachelor of Arts

Bachelor of Laws (Hons)(Melb)

Admitted

Victoria

New York

Entitled to practise in

State and Territory Courts and Tribunals

Federal Court of Australia

High Court of Australia

Recent Cases

Examples of current and recent cases

Counsel for Australian Education City in judicial review proceedings against Victorian State parties in the Victorian Supreme Court in an ongoing matter (S ECI 2019 03890)

Counsel for the Director of Consumer Affairs in an ongong consumer law case in the Federal Court: Director of Consumer Affairs v Vic Solar Technologies P/L & Anor  VID111/2019

Counsel for the Director of Public Prosecutions in a series of proceeds of crime matters including a county court trial in Nguyen v Director of Public Prosecutions [2019] VCC 165

McGrath v Director-General, National Archives of Australia (2017/2115; 2014/1330-1335; 2014/1337; 2014/1342; 2014/5348-5358; 2014/5360; 2014/5362-5364) AAT case (judgment reserved) regarding access to documents in the National Archives regarding the Timor Gap and oil negotiations

Minister for Immigration and Border Protection v CPA16 [2019] FCAFC 40, migration appeal (Full Federal Court)

Kio v Minister for Home Affairs (No 2) [2019] FCA 1293 and Kio v Minister for Home Affairs [2019] FCA 579, judicial review case concerning a visa refusal on character grounds

Chetcuti v Minister for Immigration and Border Protection [2019] FCAFC 112, migration appeal (Full Federal Court)

Counsel for an industry superannuation fund in the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry

CEU19 v Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs [2019] FCA 1050, case concerning negligence claims and transfer of a refugee from Nauru

MZAOL v Minister for Immigration and Border Protection  [2019] FCAFC 68, migration appeal (Full Federal Court) 

Counsel for the plaintiffs in a Victorian Supreme Court case alleging negligence regarding land contamination and nuisance: Samawi v Wellington Shire Council & Anor | S CI 2017 01949 (resolved out of court in 2018)

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, Lam v Lam & Ors [2016] VSC 298, counsel for the respondents at trial and in subsequent appeals in a case concerning alleged fraud and forgeries in the context of property law matters

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

AGG17 v Commonwealth of Australia [2018] FCA 242, case involving public interest immunity claims in the context of an ADJR Act proceeding concerning seizure and forfeiture of an alleged bogus document

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; (2018) 359 ALR 22, counsel for the three appellants in High Court appeals concerning the construction of student visa related legislation

BXK15 v Minister for Immigration and Border Protection [2018] FCAFC 76, counsel for the appellant in a Full Federal Court appeal in relation to judicial review of a protection visa decision

BRF038 v Republic of Nauru [2017] HCA 44, (2017) 349 ALR 67, counsel for the appellant in a High Court appeal from the Supreme Court of Nauru regarding procedural fairness in judicial review

Memberships

Co-Editor - Victorian Bar News 

Victorian Bar - Commercial Bar Association