Felicity Gerry

Biography

Felicity Gerry is a high profile criminal barrister and author specialising in serious fatal, sexual and violent offences. Her podcasts for CPDCast.com are some of the most popular in the country. Her greatest skill is in communicating complex legal issues in a simple and understandable way.

She has a substantial criminal practice specialising in serious fatal, sexual, financial and violent offences. She has been instructed in
several high profile trials involving domestic extremism, infant death or serious injury, gang related murder and serious violence as well as substantial allegations of conspiracy to facilitate illegal immigration and people trafficking.

Felicity is particularly experienced in complex and lengthy trials concerning recent or historic sexual crime. She is the co–author of “The Sexual Offences Handbook” published 2009.

Her financial work has included the prosecution of a fraud where the defendant obtained substantial sums by setting up a fake investment bank, prosecuting a large operation at a storage facility involving stolen goods, drugs and goods liable to duty and defending in a multi million pound money laundering operation.

She is a popular and experienced broadcaster and writer with significant appearances on BBC television and Sky News, broadcasts on BBC Breakfast, Radio 4’s The Today Programme, The Jeremy Vine Show on BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio 5 Live and LBC. Felicity has written numerous commentary pieces in leading publications such as The Times, Daily Mail, The Daily Telegraph, The Independent and Daily Express.

Alongside this, she writes for Counsel Magazine and The Barrister, is a regular contributor to The Times Online Law Central and is the official blogger for Criminal Law and Justice Weekly.

Felicity lives in Bedford with her husband and their three children, her mother, two dogs, five chickens, her horse, two ponies and a foal. She has also written and published a children’s book called ‘Elsie the Pony’

Twitter: @felicitygerry

http://www.cpdcast.com/contributors/felicity_gerry

http://www.cpdcast.com/podcasts/jury-trials

http://www.legal500.com/firms/9439/offices/9439/lawyers/78590

Coverage

“Felicity Gerry is brilliant” - LBC Radio 97.3

“Felicity Gerry is to be roundly congratulated for writing such a detailed and helpful guide…an extremely useful book” - Judge Nicholas Browne QC

“As Vice Chair of the Midlands Society of Asian Lawyers that Ms Gerry has delivered brilliant seminars to our members for the last three years. Her teaching and advice is clear, unambiguous and practical. We have some members who are foreign lawyers, who don’t have fist hand experience of the English Legal system, and they have commented that Miss Gerry’s explanation of complex legal issues were simple to understand, easy to follow and beautifully delivered.” – Amar Mehta LLB (Hons), Director, ZMS Solicitors