Caroline Costello

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The Hon. Ms. Justice
Caroline Costello
President of the Court of Appeal
Incumbent
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24 July 2024
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Caroline Costello is an Irish judge who has served as President of the Court of Appeal since July 2024 and 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 appointed 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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  2. ↑ "Appointments to the High Court". Irish Government News Service. 23 July 2014. Archived from the original on 17 May 2019. Retrieved 17 May 2019.
  3. ↑ "President appoints Ms Caroline Costello, S.C., Ms Aileen Donnelly, S.C., & Mr Seamus Noonan, S.C." President.ie. Archived from the original on 18 November 2017. Retrieved 17 May 2019.
  4. ↑ "Judge brands Dunne 'deeply dishonest' as his bankruptcy extended by 12 years". Irish Independent . 3 October 2018. Archived from the original on 17 May 2019. Retrieved 17 May 2019.
  5. ↑ "INSOL Europe Annual Conference 2018, Athens". University College Cork. Archived from the original on 17 May 2019. Retrieved 17 May 2019.
  6. ↑ Humphries, Conor; Fioretti, Julia (12 April 2018). "EU's top court asked to probe Facebook U.S. data transfers". Reuters. Archived from the original on 17 May 2019. Retrieved 17 May 2019.
  7. ↑ "President appoints judges to the Court of Appeal and the High Court". President.ie. Archived from the original on 14 November 2018. Retrieved 17 May 2019.
  8. ↑ "Minister Flanagan welcomes 50/50 gender balance in Court of Appeal". Irish Government News Service. Archived from the original on 17 May 2019. Retrieved 17 May 2019.
  9. ↑ "Two High Court judges named for Court of Appeal". Law Society Gazette. 10 October 2018. Archived from the original on 17 May 2019. Retrieved 17 May 2019.
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