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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · Feb 1

My story here: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Australian lawyer caught using ChatGPT filed court documents referencing ‘non-existent’ cases

Immigration minister says such conduct must be ‘nipped in bud’ as lawyer referred to office of the NSW Legal Services Commissioner for consideration

www.theguardian.com

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Piers Gooding @pgooding.bsky.social · Jan 30

@bernmcsherry.bsky.social and I co-authored this (now open access) column, "Predicting the Risk of Future Terrorism: Lessons for Mental Health Experts from the Benbrika Case". We focus on criticisms of the use of a prominent violent extremism risk assessment tool. www.academia.edu/127012915/Pr...

Predicting the Risk of Future Terrorism: Lessons for Mental Health Experts from the Benbrika Case

Risk assessment is an important component of judicial decision-making in many areas of the law. In Australia, those convicted of terrorist offences may be the subject of continued detention in prison ...

www.academia.edu

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Bernadette McSherry @bernmcsherry.bsky.social · Jan 15

Oops. That should have been @pgooding.bsky.social There needs to be an edit button!

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Bernadette McSherry @bernmcsherry.bsky.social · Jan 15

Really thrilled to have had a book published as a tribute to my work. Thanks @ymaker.bsky.social and @pgooding.bsly.social for your hard work on this! #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #MentalHealth

Yvette Maker @ymaker.bsky.social · Jan 15

The paperback version of our edited collection (and tribute to @bernmcsherry.bsky.social), 'The Future of Disability, Mental Health and Criminal Law', is now out - and it's on sale!

Info here and get in touch for an extra discount code: www.routledge.com/The-Future-o...

The Future of Mental Health, Disability and Criminal Law

This book brings together contributions from twenty-three world-leading scholars and commentators that address a range of contemporary and pressing international themes in mental health, disability an...

www.routledge.com

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Piers Gooding @pgooding.bsky.social · Jan 14

For anyone following progress on the Council of Europe draft Additional Protocol to the Oviedo Convention (on involuntary psychiatric intervention), a coalition of civil society orgs have published an open letter to the COE Committee of Ministers. www.edf-feph.org/publications...

Open letter to the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers and Ministers’ Deputies regarding the draft Additional Protocol to the Oviedo Convention

A coalition of civil society organisations and and human rights bodies, including the European Disability Forum, European Network of (Ex)-Users and Survived Patients, Mental Health Europe, European As...

www.edf-feph.org

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Bernadette McSherry @bernmcsherry.bsky.social · Dec 16

Thanks to @ymaker.bsky.social for the initial concept and for co-authoring this open access article on #HumanRights and the #SocialDeterminants of #MentalHealth with me. #Psychscisky #Psychiatry #Psychology #Law
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Human rights and the social determinants of mental health: fostering interdisciplinary research collaboration

There is a developing body of research indicating that individual and population-based mental health is affected by a range of ‘social determinants’. Discrimination, poverty, inadequate access to h...

www.tandfonline.com

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Bernadette McSherry @bernmcsherry.bsky.social · Dec 5

Post a thorough (and often distressing) Royal Commission, hoping there's still the impetus for positive changes to occur in the #MentalHealth system in Victoria - particularly in regional areas. #Psychscisky #HumanRights #Psychology #Psychiatry www.theage.com.au/politics/vic...

Victoria fails royal commission timeline as mental health reforms delayed

The Allan government has backtracked on its promise to implement all recommendations from the Royal Commission into Victoria’s Mental Health System on time.

www.theage.com.au

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Bernadette McSherry @bernmcsherry.bsky.social · Dec 3

“The Victorian community is facing significant and increasing #mentalhealth challenges, and now is not the time to let investment and reform pace slip.” Couldn't agree more. www.mhwc.vic.gov.au/mhwcs-inaugu... #AusPol #psychscisky #psychology #psychiatry

Media release-MHWC's inaugural annual report released

Mental Health must remain a priority as Annual Report shows Victoria faces increasing challenges

www.mhwc.vic.gov.au

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Melissa Castan @drmcastan.bsky.social · Nov 19

Looking for #LawSky friends from Australia? Here is the Starter Pack for #AusLaw Academics. More added daily 😁
Please do share! go.bsky.app/A9tXyKu

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Bernadette McSherry @bernmcsherry.bsky.social · Nov 13

Still learning how to navigate a new system but thrilled to see so many familiar names here. Maybe it’s nothing but Bluesky from now on? (Apologies to Ella and everyone else who’s made the same comment).

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