Training and CPD
Expertise & excellence in legal training modules and Continuing Professional development
⎯ THE TRAINING
Dr Felicity Gerry KC offers unparalleled expertise in delivering dynamic and impactful training to organisations worldwide. As an accomplished barrister with extensive experience in international criminal law, human trafficking, terrorism and human rights, she brings deep practical knowledge and insight to her training sessions. Felicity’s engaging, trauma-informed approach equips professionals with the latest legal strategies, investigative techniques and courtroom skills necessary to handle complex cases. Whether for law enforcement, prosecutors, NGOs or corporations, Felicity’s tailored training programmes empower teams to navigate legal challenges, enhance their effectiveness and foster a culture of justice and accountability. Partnering with her ensures cutting-edge education that drives real-world results.
Felicity has recently worked as Senior Anti-Human Trafficking Expert Consultant and Trainer for Lawyers Without Borders and has 12 years of experience in academia teaching contemporary international legal challenges.
Felicity has provided training / CPD and presented at conferences on a range of legal issues ranging from War Crimes, Terrorism, Modern Slavery, Human Trafficking and Combatting FGM as well as the use of technology in legal practice.
In 2026 she gave the keynote “Modern Slavery Law and the Corporate Criminal Cross-Over” at the Conference on International and Transnational Legal Frameworks in Christchurch, New Zealand. She also spoke at the Legalwise Seminars Criminal Law Conference in Melbourne on legislative updates, evidence and advocacy. She presented the free CPD webinar “Women, Modern Slavery and the Courts” to launch the Catch 22 report on trafficked persons who commit crime in Victoria. Her other recent sessions include “Ethics for Corporate Lawyers and Modern Slavery” and the Victorian Bar CPD event “Tackling Modern Slavery: Civil and Criminal Law Perspectives”.
She has given two talks at the International Bar Association Annual Conference: the keynote “Towards Global Corporate Criminal Liability” in Sydney (2017) and “Financial and Personal Costs of Human Rights Litigation: How to Go the Distance?” in Mexico City (2024). She has also spoken on modern slavery at Middle Temple (“The UK Modern Slavery Act: Six Years of Lost Opportunity”, 2022), for the International Bar Association (“Modern Slavery: Punishing the Victims and Why This Must Stop”, 2022), at Deakin University Law School (2020) and for KPMG and the Australian Institute of Company Directors (2019). Her webinars on terrorism, sanctions and state accountability include sessions for Libertas Chambers (2022), the ANU College of Law (2021) and the Bar Human Rights Committee of England & Wales with the American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative (2021). At the Second International Conference on Transdisciplinary AI (2020) she co-presented research on using graph theory to investigate corruption and modern slavery through suspicious employment data.
She moderated the Monash Women, Peace and Security in Afghanistan events and the ANU G20 gender equality summit event on women’s participation in employment.
She has provided training to the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association Modern Slavery Project and the Bangladesh Judiciary Management Project and has developed a teaching module for UNODC on the linkages between human trafficking, smuggling of migrants and cybercrime.
She is an Ambassador for International Social Services Australia and formerly The Advocate’s Gateway (UK).
She is author, co-author and contributor to a range of books and other publications. Her chapter on vulnerable witnesses and parties in civil proceedings in Addressing Vulnerability in Justice Systems (published 2016) was described as “such a broadly comprehensive chapter on the subject of vulnerability within the legal system that it could stand as a practitioners’ potted guide in itself”.