Lauren Gurry

Lauren Gurry is currently undertaking the September 2025 Victorian Bar Readers Course and will sign the Bar Roll on 25th of September upon the successful completion of the course.

Lauren is an accomplished advocate who has a broad practice in criminal law and public law. 

She appears in state and federal criminal and quasi-criminal matters, both for prosecution and defence, and also accepts briefs in regulatory and enforcement proceedings, disciplinary matters and inquests and inquiries. 

Lauren has appeared unled in a number of jury trials in the County Court and as junior counsel in trials in the County Court and Supreme Court.  She has appeared in a wide range of criminal matters in the Magistrates’ Court and County Court, including bail applications, pleas, committal hearings and appeals. Lauren has also appeared in bail applications in the Supreme Court.  Lauren has extensive experience in matters involving complex legal and factual issues and provides sound written advice.

Lauren was most recently an Associate Crown Prosecutor at the Office of Public Prosecutions Victoria.  Prior to that, she was the Manager of Advocacy at the OPP for a period of five years.  Lauren was a Principal Federal Prosecutor and held other legal roles at the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions where she worked for over a decade. 

Lauren commenced her legal career at Deacons (now Norton Rose Fulbright).  She also completed an internship at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague.

Lauren is reading with Astrid Haban-Beer and Amber Harris and her senior mentor is Karen Argiropoulos SC.