Professor Felicity Gerry KC

Meet Felicity

Recognised as one of the top 5 international lawyers you want on your side by Law and Crime Productions.

⎯ THE BIOGRAPHY

Professor Felicity Gerry KC is a high-profile legal expert that broadcasters go to for media commentary and presentation of international legal issues, particularly relating to International Crimes, Terrorism and Homicide and Corporate Responsibility for human rights abuses. She is commonly called to comment upon issues from her teaching and research on Women & Law and Technology & Law and Reforming Justice Systems. She has extensive court experience in significant legal challenges and her successful submissions to Governments have led to changes in the law on Modern Slavery, FGM and Reproductive Rights.

Felicity has appeared in the BAFTA nominated FGM documentary The Cruel Cut and ABC Foreign Correspondent’s documentary Saving Mary Jane and BBC 3 Series ‘Sex on the Edge’ , Channel 5 April Jones Murder documentary, Channel 5 Sarah Payne Documentary and on all major news channels including ABC, BBC, Sky News, Russia Today and Al Jazeera. She also contributed to the LOGIE nominated documentary about her client Zak Grieve.

Felicity is in high demand for her public speaking, most recently at Exeter College, Oxford about Women at the Bar.

To book Felicity for a media interview or speaking event, get in touch.

Career Highlights

Leading a legal Memo on Investment in Myanmar

Leading 2 submissions on women, peace and security in Afghanistan

Submitted a successful petition for mercy for Zak Grieve, a young Aboriginal man imprisoned in the NT of Australia, as a challenge to mandatory sentencing laws

Led a group of academics and practitioners granted leave to file an amicus curiae brief in the Radovan Karadžić appeal in the ICTY

Overturned a Government decision not to heritage list significant Aboriginal land in the NT, Australia on behalf on the EDO NT

Led the appeal in R v Jogee in the UKSC that corrected the law on joint enterprise in the UK Supreme Court, described by the BBC as a ‘moment of genuine legal history’

Assisted lawyers in the Philippines in the temporary reprieve from execution of Mary Jane Veloso using her research on the law, practice and procedure relating to human trafficking victims who commit crime

Defended R v Abbas in Melbourne Supreme Court - one of the rare occasions for a woman QC to defend in a terrorism trial

Reported for the American Bar Association on the human rights issues in the draft cybercrime law for Cambodia

Assisted in developing and drafting a global Treaty on tackling violence against women and girls as part of a Harvard led project

Developing a teaching module for UNODC on the linkages between Trafficking in Persons, Smuggling of Migrants and Cybercrime

Changing the law on combatting FGM in the UK using my research in a report on behalf of the BHRC

Changing the law on reproductive rights in the NT, Australia as part of a collaborative research project with Menzies School of Health

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