Bernadette McSherry

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Bernadette McSherry

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#3198

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International Law

#1271

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#1522

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Bernadette McSherry's Degrees

PhD Law University of Melbourne

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According to Wikipedia, Bernadette McSherry is a lawyer, writer and Emeritus Professor at the University of Melbourne. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law and a Commissioner with the Victorian Law Reform Commission.

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The United Nations Convention on the rights of persons with disabilities. (2008) (552)
Getting away with murder? Dissociative states and criminal responsibility. (1998) (106)
Preventing and reducing ‘coercion’ in mental health services: an international scoping review of English‐language studies (2020) (74)
Consumers and Carer perspectives on poor practice and the use of seclusion and restraint in mental health settings: results from Australian focus groups (2016) (68)
Regulating deviance : the redirection of criminalisation and the futures of criminal law (2009) (64)
Attitudes towards seclusion and restraint in mental health settings: findings from a large, community-based survey of consumers, carers and mental health professionals (2016) (58)
Mental Health Laws: Where to from Here? (2014) (50)
Journal of Law and Medicine (1999) (49)
Legal capacity under the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. (2012) (47)
Dangerous People: Policy, Prediction, and Practice (2011) (45)
Human Rights and Unfitness to Plead: The Demands of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2017) (41)
Managing Fear: The Law and Ethics of Preventive Detention and Risk Assessment (2013) (40)
Terrorism Offences in the 'Criminal Code': Broadening the Boundaries of Australian Criminal Laws (2004) (38)
Posthumous reproduction. (2005) (37)
Sex Offenders and Preventive Detention: Politics, Policy and Practice (2010) (36)
Principles of Criminal Law (2005) (34)
Diversion down under - Programs for offenders with mental illnesses in Australia. (2010) (33)
Supported decision-making from the perspectives of mental health service users, family members supporting them and mental health practitioners (2018) (33)
Trafficking in Women and Forced Migration: Moving Victims Across the Border of Crime into the Domain of Human Rights (2008) (31)
Australian and Canadian Mental Health Acts Compared (2010) (30)
Erratum to: Consumers and their supporters’ perspectives on poor practice and the use of seclusion and restraint in mental health settings: results from Australian focus groups (2016) (29)
Unfitness to Stand Trial and the Indefinite Detention of Persons with Cognitive Disabilities in Australia: Human Rights Challenges and Proposals for Change (2017) (29)
Risk assessment by mental health professionals and the prevention of future violent behaviour (2004) (29)
Rethinking rights-based mental health laws. (2010) (27)
The concept of capacity in Australian mental health law reform: Going in the wrong direction? (2015) (27)
Public health and human rights. (2008) (25)
Consumers' and their supporters' perspectives on barriers and strategies to reducing seclusion and restraint in mental health settings. (2016) (24)
Protecting the Integrity of the Person: Developing Limitations on Involuntary Treatment (2008) (22)
Criminal responsibility, "fleeting" states of mental impairment, and the power of self-control. (2004) (20)
Voluntariness, intention, and the defence of mental disorder: toward a rational approach. (2003) (19)
International Trends in Mental Health Laws: Introduction (2008) (17)
Australian Criminal Laws: Critical Perspectives (2004) (16)
Preventive detention for 'dangerous' offenders in Australia : a critical analysis and proposals for policy development : report to the Criminology Research Council (2006) (16)
Indefinite and preventive detention legislation: from caution to an open door (2005) (16)
Decision-Making, Legal Capacity and Neuroscience: Implications for Mental Health Laws (2015) (15)
Sex, Drugs and Evil Souls: The Growing Reliance on Preventive Detention Regimes (2009) (15)
The Preventive Detention of Sex Offenders: Law and Practice (2015) (14)
Regulating seclusion and restraint in health care settings: The promise of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. (2017) (14)
Drug-associated psychoses and criminal responsibility. (2008) (14)
Mental Impairment and Criminal Responsibility: Recent Australian Legislative Reforms (1999) (13)
The reformulated defence of insanity in the Australian Criminal Code Act 1995 (Cth). (1997) (13)
Constructing Lack of Consent (1998) (13)
Regulating Mental Healthcare Practitioners: Towards a Standardised and Workable Framework (2007) (13)
Detention and treatment down under: human rights and mental health laws in Australia and New Zealand. (2011) (13)
Without Sex (2009) (12)
Regulating restraint use in mental health and aged care settings: Lessons from the Oakden scandal (2019) (12)
The use and abuse of counseling records in sexual assault trials: Reconstructing the “rape shield”? (1997) (12)
Community Treatment Orders and Supported Decision-Making (2019) (11)
Sexual Activity Among Institutionalized Persons in Need of Special Care (1998) (11)
The preventive detention of 'dangerous' sex offenders in Australia: Perspectives at the coalface (2013) (11)
The legal regulation of seclusion and restraint in mental health facilities. (2013) (11)
Throwing Away the Key: The Ethics of Risk Assessment for Preventive Detention Schemes (2014) (10)
Mental Health and Human Rights: The Role of the Law in Developing a Right to Enjoy the Highest Attainable Standard of Mental Health in Australia (2008) (10)
Trafficking in Persons: A Critical Analysis of the New Criminal Code Offences (2007) (10)
It's a man's world: claims of provocation and automatism in 'intimate' homicides (2005) (10)
Seclusion and Restraint: Rethinking Regulation from a Human Rights Perspective (2010) (10)
Research involving interviews with individuals who have experienced traumatic events: Some guidelines (1995) (9)
Confidentiality in Therapeutic Relationships: The Need to Develop Comprehensive Guidelines for Mental Health Professionals (2006) (9)
Preventive justice, risk of harm and mental health laws (2017) (9)
Ethical issues in HealthConnect's shared electronic health record system. (2004) (8)
The doctrine of necessity and medical treatment. (2002) (8)
Men Behaving Badly: Current Issues in Provocation, Automatism, Mental Impairment and Criminal Responsibility (2005) (7)
SUPPORT FOR THE EXERCISE OF LEGAL CAPACITY: THE ROLE OF THE LAW. (2015) (7)
Making defensible decisions in the era of recovery and rights (2018) (7)
High-risk offenders: continued detention and supervision options (2006) (7)
The Criminal Justice Response to Trafficking in Persons: Practical Problems with Enforcement in the Asia-Pacific Region (2007) (7)
Community treatment orders: towards a new research agenda (2018) (7)
New Zealand's Mental Health Act in Practice (2015) (7)
Health Professional-Patient Confidentiality: Does the Law Really Matter? (2008) (7)
Treat with care: the right to informed consent for medical treatment of persons with mental impairments in Australia (2017) (7)
Psychologists' perceptions of legal and ethical requirements for breaching confidentiality (2008) (7)
Expert testimony and the effects of mental impairment. Reviving the ultimate issue rule. (2001) (6)
Third Party Access to Shared Electronic Mental Health Records: Ethical Issues (2004) (6)
Locked mental health wards: the answer to absconding? (2014) (6)
Afterword: Options for the Reform of Provocation, Automatism and Mental Impairment (2005) (6)
Providing Mental Health Services and Psychiatric Care to Immigration Detainees: What Tort Law Requires (2007) (5)
Sexual assault against individuals with mental impairment: Are criminal laws adequate? (1998) (5)
Expanding the boundaries of inchoate crimes: the growing reliance on preparatory offences (2009) (5)
Mental health, mental capacity, ethics, and the law in the context of COVID-19 (coronavirus) (2020) (5)
Confidentiality for Mental Health Professionals: A Guide to Ethical and Legal Principles (2009) (5)
Defences to homicide: issues paper (2002) (5)
Breaching confidentiality in the public interest: Guidance from Canada? (2000) (5)
Alternatives to Compulsory Detention and Treatment and Coercive Practices in Mental Health Settings. (2018) (5)
Risk Assessment, Predictive Algorithms and Preventive Justice (2020) (5)
The Introduction of Terrorism-Related Offences in Australia: Comfort or Concern? (2005) (5)
Confidentiality of psychiatric and psychological communications: The public interest exception (2001) (5)
The insanity defence and international human rights obligations (2001) (5)
Mental health laws for those "compliant" with treatment. (2009) (4)
Coercive care: rights, law and policy (2013) (4)
Force-Feeding and Anorexia (1997) (4)
To Detain or Not to Detain: A Question of Public Duty? (2009) (4)
R v Stone [1999] 2 SCR 290 (2000) (4)
Premenstrual syndrome and criminal responsibility (1994) (4)
'Dangerousness' and Public Health (1998) (4)
Mental Impairment and Criminal Responsibility: Recent Legislation (1998) (4)
Implementing a Participatory Human Rights-Based Research Methodology: The Unfitness to Plead Project (2019) (3)
Electroconvulsive Therapy without Consent: The Influence of Human Rights Law. (2019) (3)
Torture and Ill-Treatment in Health Care Settings: Lessons from the United Nations (2013) (3)
Criminal Detention of Those with Mental Impairment (1999) (3)
Pretrial and Civil Detention of “Dangerous” Individuals in Common Law Jurisdictions (2019) (3)
DEFINING SECLUSION AND RESTRAINT: LEGAL AND POLICY DEFINITIONS VERSUS CONSUMER AND CARER PERSPECTIVES. (2015) (3)
Laws to detain individuals with substance dependency: breaching human rights or restoring health? (2011) (3)
Epilepsy and confidentiality: ethical considerations. (2004) (3)
Supporting People with Decision-Making Impairments: Choice, Control and Consumer Transactions (2017) (2)
A review of the New South Wales Reform Commission's report: People with an Intellectual Disability and the Criminal Justice System (1999) (2)
Access to confidential medical records by courts and tribunals: the inapplicability of the doctrine of public interest immunity. (2007) (2)
Epilepsy, automatism and culpable driving. (2002) (2)
Incorporating carers' rights in mental health legislation. (2010) (2)
The government's duty of care to provide adequate health care to immigration detainees. (2007) (2)
Preventing Harm to Others as a Criterion for Compulsory Treatment: An Overview of Criticisms and Current Research. (2020) (2)
Ensuring Equality for Persons with Cognitive Disabilities in Consumer Contracting: An International Human Rights Law Perspective (2018) (2)
Hospital orders for offenders with mental illnesses: an appropriate diversionary option? (2009) (2)
Getting Away with Murder? Dissociative States and Automatism (1997) (2)
Current Challenges for the Regulation of Chemical Restraint in Health Care Settings. (2016) (2)
Rethinking mental health laws (2010) (2)
Confidential communications between clients and mental health care professionals: the public interest exception (2002) (2)
Human rights and mental health: the gap between legislating and implementing human rights (2006) (1)
PD v Harvey and Chen [2003] NSWSC 487. (2003) (1)
Consumer Transactions: Equitable Support Models for Individuals with Decision-making Impairments: A Pilot Study (2017) (1)
International Human Rights and Mental Health: Challenges For Law and Practice. (2018) (1)
Who do I turn to? Resolving complaints by mental health consumers and carers. (2011) (1)
R.G. Smith (ed), Health Care, Crime and Regulatory Control (1999) (1)
From Safety Nets to Support Networks: Beyond ‘Vulnerability’ in Protection for Consumers with Cognitive Disabilities (2018) (1)
Consenting to shared electronic health records: the proposed HealthConnect system. (2004) (1)
The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the challenge to treatment without consent of individuals with psychosocial disabilities (2020) (1)
'Unfit' to Plead: A Kafkaesque conundrum (2018) (1)
Computational Modelling, Social Media and Health-Related Datasets: Consent and Privacy Issues. (2018) (1)
Psychiatry and Law: Clinical and Legal Issues (1997) (1)
Regulating to Ensure Patient Safety in Hospitals: Towards a Comprehensive Framework (2006) (1)
'Unfit' to plead (2018) (1)
Options for Supported Decision-Making to Enhance the Recovery of People Experiencing Severe Mental Health Problems (2017) (1)
Amici curiae and the public interest in medical law cases. (2003) (1)
Achieving the ‘Standard of Care’ while respecting recovery and rights (2018) (0)
L. Skene, Law and Medical Practice: Rights, Duties, Claims and Defences; I. Kerridge, M. Lowe and J. McPhee, Ethics and Law for the Health Professions (1999) (0)
Where to from here for coercive care (2013) (0)
Legal issues in Canada. (2003) (0)
Ethical decision-making in confidentiality dilemmas (2009) (0)
Gerry Simpson (ed), War Crimes Law, Volumes I and II (Ashgate, 2004) (2005) (0)
Risk management in the era of recovery and rights (2020) (0)
Laws of Preventive Detention (2013) (0)
Regulating restrictive practices (2020) (0)
The concept of confidentiality (2009) (0)
Table of statutes (2009) (0)
Supported Decision-Making in Criminal Proceedings: A Sociolegal Empirical Study (2021) (0)
From coercion to coordination? The role of the law in service provision for individuals with coexisting disorders (2013) (0)
Seizures, Postictal States and Criminal Responsibility. (2022) (0)
Human Rights Law and the Defence of Mental Impairment. (2022) (0)
A Review of “New Zealand's Mental Health Act in Practice”, edited by John Dawson and Kris Gledhill (2015) (0)
HUMAN RIGHTS AND MENTAL HEALTH LAW (2018) (0)
Access to Medical Records: What Legislation Must Take Into Account (1997) (0)
Abortion and the criminal law. (2004) (0)
What Making a Murderer tells us about disability and disadvantage in criminal law (2016) (0)
An analysis of arguments for the retention of the defence of mental impairment (2023) (0)
The pharmaceutical industry and ethical conduct (2000) (0)
The intractable use of restraint, organisational culture and 'othering' (2020) (0)
Chinese Whispers: Judicial Narratives and the Regulation of Clinical Medicine (1997) (0)
Practical application of a rights and recovery approach (2018) (0)
The Defence of Provocation in Australia (2007) (0)
Navigating risk management, recovery and human rights in clinical practice (2018) (0)
Psychological and Psychiatric Testimony and the Ultimate Issue Rule (1999) (0)
Reducing Seclusion and Restraint: Hearing from Consumers and their Supporters (2017) (0)
Sex Offenders and Preventive Detention, by Bernadette McSherry and Patrick Keyzer (2011) (0)
Consent to Medical Treatment in Theory and Practice (1999) (0)
Psychiatry and the Law (2008) (0)
Human cloning offences: the gene Technology Act 2000 (Cth). (2001) (0)
Confidentiality and the duty to warn (2000) (0)
International and transnational crimes (2005) (0)
Indicators of risk-adjusted clinical performance (2001) (0)
Journal of Law and Medicine: Public Health and Human Rights (2008) (0)
Restorative Justice on Trial (1994) (0)
The Ethics of Forensic Risk Assessment (2013) (0)
R.F. Schopp, Justification Defenses and Just Convictions; A. Duff (ed) Philosophy and the Criminal Law: Principle and Critique (1999) (0)
Human rights promotion and the ‘Geneva impasse’ in mental healthcare: scoping review (2023) (0)
Justice for Individuals with Mental Illnesses (2008) (0)
Book Review of Neurodisability and the Criminal Justice System: Comparative and Therapeutic Responses, (2022) (0)
The ethical framework for confidentiality (2009) (0)
Rethinking Mental Health Laws: Developing Model Frameworks (2008) (0)
Euthanasia and Knowledge of Wrongfulness (1998) (0)
‘WE ALL NEED SOMEBODY TO LEAN ON’: SUPPORTED DECISION-MAKING, LAW REFORM AND MENTAL HEALTH CARE (2013) (0)
Consumer Complaints and Competition in Health Services (1999) (0)
Restrictive practices (2020) (0)
Containment versus rehabilitation : Managing high-risk offenders with complex needs (2018) (0)
Editorial - The Costs of Health (1999) (0)
Common law exceptions and limitations to maintaining confidentiality (2009) (0)
"Dangerous" people: an overview (2011) (0)

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