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Caroline Costello

Caroline Costello

Irish judge

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.

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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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    "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.
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    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.
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    "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.
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    "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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