Description: Felicity Gerry KC is an international barrister, academic and media commentator at chambers in London and Darwin and in the School of Law at CDU.
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 submis
Professor Felicity Gerry KC is an international KC at Libertas Chambers, London and Crockett Chambers, Melbourne , largely defending in serious and complex criminal trials and appeals, often with an international element. She was Solicitor’s Journal Legal Personality of the Year 2016 and Australian Barrister of the Year 2020. She is listed in the Legal 500 as a leading silk and recommended as “fearless and independent minded” and “at the forefront of the development of criminal law. She is a true inspira
Admitted to the list of counsel for the International Criminal Court and the Kosovo Specialist Chambers in The Hague and in England & Wales and in Australia (Victoria and the High Court Roll) and has had ad hoc admission in Hong Kong and Gibraltar. She led the appeal in R v Jogee in the UK Supreme Court which was described by the BBC as a ‘moment of genuine legal history’ and she led the intervention for JUSTICE in the Shamima Begum Appeals. Felicity is one of the few women silks to defend in a terrori