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Felicity is at the International Bar Association Annual Conference in Copenhagen this week. On 6 October she spoke on “The sound of dissent: music, art and performance as protest”. The

Felicity appeared on TRT to comment on the Christa Pike case. Watch the interview

Felicity has responded to the Law Commission’s consultation on homicide offences. She raises concerns that complicity law has been left out of the review and calls for wider reform. Her

Felicity was involved in International Criminal Court training run by the ICC Bar Association in September. ICCBA training details

Felicity will be speaking at the 11th annual Women in Procurement Leadership Summit. It is Australia’s leadership and capability programme for procurement professionals who want to build their influence and

Felicity attended the launch of the Law and Advocacy Centre for Women’s new toolkit and wrote its foreword. The toolkit helps lawyers represent pregnant women and mothers in Victoria who

Felicity has been instructed to advise on an EncroChat-related matter. The European Court of Human Rights has just started looking at evidence taken from decrypted cryptophone networks and what it

Felicity has co-signed an open letter calling for urgent Government action on IPP and DPP sentences. It was sent to the Ministry of Justice, the Secretary of State for Justice

Felicity’s long-running work challenging Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentences reached a new milestone this summer. In July, UN experts responded to her report on the IPP system via the

Felicity will present a Criminal Law Evidence Masterclass on AI-Generated Evidence for Legalwise Seminars on Friday 18 September, covering the authenticity, reliability and admissibility of AI-generated and AI-assisted material –

Felicity delivered a three-part CPD series for the Tanganyika Law Society this August, in partnership with Lawyers Without Borders, focused on cross-examination and international advocacy. The series opened on 8

Responding to media coverage of the government’s prisoner early-release scheme, including the case of the men convicted of PC Harper’s manslaughter.  Felicity said it was “dreadful” that the UK publicity

Felicity flagged the release of the International Bar Association’s Criminal Law and Business Crime Committees’ second joint newsletter of 2026, part of the wider international bar community she’s active in.

Felicity presented on Trauma-Informed Practice to the Bendigo Lawyers Association on 6 August, covering procedural fairness, criminal responsibility and sustainable legal practice. Read the full blog post and the accompanying

Felicity featured on a panel at the ANZSIL Conference curated by Lexbridge, who thanked contributors for “fostering connections across the international law community — linking academia, government, and private practice.”

After three years of research, Felicity and co-author Phillipa Stafford published the Catch 22 report, examining the experiences of modern slavery survivors within the Victorian criminal justice system. Greens List

Felicity welcomed news that the King granted a conditional pardon to Ruth Ellis, the last woman hanged in the UK. Announcing the pardon, David Lammy described Ellis as “a victim

Felicity’s chambers, Libertas, confirmed she has been cited in the Law Commission’s Consultation Paper on Homicide, in the chapter addressing autism and allegations of joint enterprise. The citation follows the

This week Libertas Chambers became the first chambers to host training from the University of Salford’s Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) research hub. This specialist training on FASD and criminal