Caroline Costello | |
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| Judge of the Court of Appeal | |
| Assumed office 13 November 2018 | |
| Nominated by | Government of Ireland |
| Appointed by | Michael D. Higgins |
| Judge of the High Court | |
| In office 22 September 2014 –13 November 2018 | |
| Nominated by | Government of Ireland |
| Appointed by | Michael D. Higgins |
| Personal details | |
| Nationality | Irish |
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Caroline Costello is an Irish judge who has served as a Judge of the Court of Appeal since November 2018. She previously served as a Judge of the High Court from 2014 to 2018.
Costello graduated with a BA in Classics and History from University College Dublin in 1982. [1] She subsequently attended the University of Oxford and the King's Inns. She became a barrister in 1988 and a senior counsel in 2010. She had a commercial oriented practice,focusing on commercial law,banking law and insolvency law. [2]
She was appointed to the High Court in September 2014. [3] She presided over High Court bankruptcy proceedings involving Seán Dunne. [4] She served a term as chair of the judicial wing of INSOL Europe,a federation of insolvency lawyers. [5] In 2018,she made a reference to the Court of Justice of the European Union arising out of an action taken by Max Schrems regarding the EU–US Privacy Shield. [6]
She was made a Judge of the Court of Appeal in November 2018. [7] Her appointment to the Court of Appeal along with Isobel Kennedy resulted in the first Irish court with a gender balanced number of judges. [8]
She is the daughter of the former Attorney General of Ireland and President of the High Court Declan Costello and the granddaughter of former Taoiseach John A. Costello. [9]
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