Mark Costello KC

Barrister
Mark Costello KC

About Mark

Mark practises in all areas of commercial litigation as well as constitutional and administrative law.

He has appeared in courts in all states and has also appeared before various arbitral tribunals.

His commercial law experience spans class actions, contract disputes, competition law, corporate insolvency, engineering disputes, professional indemnity claims and regulatory litigation.

His public law experience includes a broad range of constitutional and administrative law litigation and advice, from the Administrative Appeals Tribunal through to the High Court of Australia.

He has appeared in various Royal Commissions, including as Counsel Assisting the Financial Services Royal Commission.

He was previously a Senior Fellow of the Monash University Faculty of Law.

Before coming to the Bar, Mark was a commercial litigation solicitor with Minter Ellison and Arnold Bloch Leibler and an Associate to a Justice of the High Court of Australia.

*Liability limited to a scheme approved under Professional Standards legislation

Qualifications

  • LLB
  • LLM

Publications

  • “Administrative Review in Other Jurisdictions” in Mortimer D (ed), Administrative Justice and its Availability, Federation Press, 2015
  • “Advising the Directors and Management of an Entity in Financial Crisis” (with Sloan and Kimpton) in Maiden S (ed), Insolvent Investments, LexisNexis, 2015