Tuesday, 24 June 2025
Chair
Emily Latif, Barrister, Castan Chambers; Leading Administrative & Public Law Junior Counsel, Victoria, Doyle’s Guide 2024
Description
Attend and earn 0.5 CPD unit in Substantive Law
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
Merits Review: Reasoning from First Principles
Gain guidance on the principles of merits review as distilled in Drake and Pochi, and the High Court’s exposition of those principles in Shi v Mara and Frugtniet v ASIC.
- Standing in the shoes of the primary decision maker
- Temporal and legal constraints on decision maker
- Marking the boundaries of review
- Re-exercising the primary decision maker’s powers post-review
- Coming to the “correct or preferable decision”
Presented by Georgina Costello KC, List G Barristers; Leading Administrative and Public Law Barrister, Victoria, Doyle’s Guide 2024
Presenters
Emily Latif, Barrister, Castan ChambersEmily is a public law advocate and practices predominantly in Discrimination, Judicial Review and Disciplinary matters. Emily is instructed by State and Commonwealth governments, regulators, educational institutions and the private sector and regularly appears in federal and state courts and tribunals. Emily is recognised in Doyle's Guide as Leading Administrative & Public Law Junior Counsel, Victoria 2024. Before coming to the bar, Emily was an associate to Justice Kenny of the Federal Court of Australia and a solicitor at Allens.
Georgina Costello KC, List G Barristers
Georgina is regularly briefed in trials and appeals regarding contract law and property rights in the Federal Court and Victorian courts. Georgina is a graduate of Melbourne University Law School (LLB Hons 1999) and was a property lawyer at Mallesons Stephen Jaques before coming to the Bar in 2003. She was appointed Silk in Victoria in 2019. Admitted to the New York Bar, she has worked as a commercial litigator at US law firm Fried Frank Harris Shriver and Jacobson LLP in 2006/2007. She has also worked at the World Bank in Washington DC and at the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization in Italy, on matters related to fraud, misconduct and corruption investigations. Georgina is Chair of the Migration Bar Association of the Victorian Bar.
