Bernadette McSherry

Sexual and Gender-based Violence in the Refugee Crisis: Vulnerability, Inequalities and Responses

2018 - 2020

Model Laws to Regulate the Use of Restraint on Persons with Disabilities

This project aims to address the current lack of a common legal framework for regulating the use of restraint on persons with disabilities i..

2016 - 2020

Thanks a bundle: making telecommunications services more accessible for people with decision-making impairments

2017 - 2019

Excellence in NonCOmmunicable disease REsearch (ENCORE) between Australia and India

2015 - 2019

Unfitness to plead and indefinite detention of persons with cognitive impairments: addressing the legal barriers and creating appropriate alternative supports in the community

2015 - 2018

Research on Non-Coercive Practices in Mental Health

2018 - 2018

Promoting consumer rights project

2017 - 2018

OPTIONS FOR SUPPORTED DECISION-MAKING TO ENHANCE THE RECOVERY OF PEOPLE WITH SEVERE MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS

This project will examine the views of people with severe mental health problems, carers and mental health practitioners concerning appropri..

2014 - 2017

OPTIONS FOR SUPPORTED DECISION-MAKING TO ENHANCE THE RECOVERY OF PEOPLE WITH SEVERE MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS

This project will examine the views of people with severe mental health problems, carers and mental health practitioners concerning appropri..

2014 - 2017

Other Law and Legal Studies

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Research Contracts

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Research Grant

2

Internal Research Grant

Scholarly Works

Displaying the 10 most recent scholarly works from 178 for Bernadette McSherry.

Book Review of Neurodisability and the Criminal Justice System: Comparative and Therapeutic Responses,

Bernadette McSherry

Journal article | 2023 | Psychiatry, Psychology and Law

An analysis of arguments for the retention of the defence of mental impairment.

Bernadette McSherry, Danny Sullivan

Journal article | 2023 | Psychiatr Psychol Law

This article summarises the main arguments for the retention of the defence of mental impairment presented in an online debate tha..

Seizures, Postictal States and Criminal Responsibility.

Bernadette McSherry, Mark Cook

Journal article | 2022 | Journal of Law and Medicine

This column provides an overview of how courts have taken into account seizures and postictal states in terms of assigning crimina..

HUMAN RIGHTS LAW AND THE DEFENCE OF MENTAL IMPAIRMENT

Bernadette McSherry, Andrew Simon-Butler

Journal article | 2022 | JOURNAL OF LAW AND MEDICINE

This article provides an overview of recent scholarship calling for the defence of mental impairment to be abolished on the ground..

Neuroscience and “Neurointerventions”: Ethical and Legal Issues

Bernadette McSherry

Book Chapter | 2022

Supported Decision-Making in Criminal Proceedings: A Sociolegal Empirical Study

Piers Gooding, Bernadette McSherry, Anna Arstein-Kerslake

Journal article | 2021 | Journal of Disability Policy Studies

This article outlines a project in which supported decision-making (SDM) and broader support to exercise legal capacity were provi..

Sensitive and Appropriate Engagement with Consumers Experiencing Vulnerability

Yvette Maker, Nina Hudson, Bernadette McSherry

Report | 2021

Consumer vulnerability has received increasing attention from Australian regulators and regulated businesses in recent years. Ther..

Restrictive practices Options and opportunities

Bernadette McSherry, Yvette Maker

Book Chapter | 2021

This volume explores different models of regulating the use of restrictive practices in health care and disability settings.

Regulating restrictive practices Challenges and possibilities

Bernadette McSherry, Yvette Maker

Book Chapter | 2021

This volume explores different models of regulating the use of restrictive practices in health care and disability settings.

Implementing and monitoring reform

Bernadette McSherry, Yvette Maker

Book Chapter | 2020

A common theme across the chapters is the importance of adequate resources to facilitate effective monitoring of current practices..

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Keyword Analysis

Justice and the Law

Law in Context

Health Services and Systems

International and Comparative Law

Public Health (excl. Specific Population Health)

Applied Ethics

Legal Systems

Community Services

Policy and Administration

News

Displaying the 10 most recent news articles from 17 for Bernadette McSherry.

Victoria considers electronic surveillance for alleged stalkers

Bernadette McSherry, Madeleine Ulbrick

In 1993, Andrea Patrick was murdered by her ex-partner after a period of severe harassment and despite a restraining order being made again..

July 15, 2021

'What I had to say mattered' — how can we provide justice for sexual assault victims beyond criminal trials?

Bernadette McSherry, Nesam McMillan

Louise Milligan’s new book, Witness, reports how traumatic the criminal justice system can be for victim-survivors of sexual assault. Th..

December 2, 2020

People with cognitive disability shouldn't be in prison because they're 'unfit to plead'. There are alternatives

Bernadette McSherry

In 2018, the Victorian Ombudsman, Deborah Glass, delivered a report about “the saddest case” she had ever seen. A 39-year-old woman with..

February 23, 2020

Moving between different cultural worlds

Babak Dadvand, Rimi Khan

Australia’s multicultural youth have strong but complex connections to their families, often coming with cultural obligations and responsib..

January 30, 2019

Coercion in mental health care: Finding a new way

Bernadette McSherry, Piers Gooding

Controlling the behaviour of people experiencing mental health crises by strapping them into beds or chairs or overmedicating them may seem..

October 5, 2018

Unfit to plead: Imprisoned without conviction

Piers Gooding, Bernadette McSherry, Anna Arstein-Kerslake

In 2001, nineteen-year-old Marlon Noble was charged with sexual offences against two young girls. If convicted, he would likely have served..

September 4, 2017

Chemical restraint: Behind locked doors

Bernadette McSherry

Earlier this month, CCTV footage emerged showing Miriam Merten, naked and disoriented in an Australian hospital. Ms Merten falls backwards ..

June 4, 2017

Time to hold back on the use of restraints

Bernadette McSherry

Coronial inquiries provide a harrowing reminder of how the use of physical, chemical or mechanical restraint to control behaviour in Austra..

November 15, 2016

Four Corners: Using restraints can be called torture

Bernadette McSherry

The ABC Four Corners program on the treatment of detainees in juvenile detention in the Northern Territory was devastating viewing. Prime M..

July 26, 2016

Four Corners: is using restraints akin to torture?

Bernadette McSherry

Monday night’s ABC Four Corners program on the treatment of detainees in juvenile detention in the Northern Territory was devastating viewi..

July 26, 2016