Mehera San Roque
Biographic Data
| ID | 1354635 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mehera San Roque |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mehera San |
| FAMILY NAME | Roque |
| SIGNATURE | SAN ROQUE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | UNSW Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1352-9862 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
On inertia, injustice and the need for reform: Introduction to a special issue on implications of the Folbigg case for the Australian criminal legal system
Contents & Introduction, Law Text Culture, volume 24
This essay introduces a large and diverse special issue on ‘The Acoustics of Justice: Law, Listening, Sound’. Until recently the acoustic dimensions of law and justice were not a major concern in the academy, either in self-consciously legal scholarship, or elsewhere. Things are changing, as indeed the size of this collection suggests. And our hope is that the work gathered here will go some way to addressing this deficit. Nevertheless, this intr…
Special Issue: Genealogies of Indefinite Detention
This introduction provides an overview of the collection of papers in this special issue on genealogies of indefinite detention. This collection of papers builds on the work of Professor Penny Pether (1957 - 2013), in particular her book proposal, ‘“Perverts,” “terrorists,” and business as usual: Comparative Indefinite Detentions before and after 9/11’
Deaf citizens as jurors in Australian courts: Participating via professional interpreters
Australian deaf citizens are currently not permitted to perform jury duty, primarily due to their inability to hear the evidence and deliberate without the help of interpreters. Although interpreters are routinely employed to interpret for defendants or witnesses in court, current legal frameworks do not permit interpreters to enter the deliberation room as a ‘thirteenth person’, for fear that they may influence the jurors in their decision-makin…
Justice is blind as long as it isn’t deaf: Excluding deaf people from jury duty – an Australian human rights breach
In the wake of a recent decision by the High Court of Australia, currently a deaf person, who relies on sign language, is not able to serve as a juror because Australian law does not permit the swearing in of an interpreter as the ‘13th person’ in the jury room. In 2016, the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities found that Australia is in breach of its obligations under the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Di…
Expert Reports and the Forensic Sciences
All Australian jurisdictions regulate the admission of expert opinion evidence. The rules focus on ‘specialised knowledge’, the existence of a ‘field’, and ‘training, study or experience’.[footnote* In most Australian jurisdictions the admission of expert opinion evidence is governed by s 79 of the Uniform Evidence Law (‘UEL’): see Evidence Act 1995 (Cth); Evidence Act 2011 (ACT); Evidence Act 1995 (NSW); Evidence Act 2001 (Tas); Evidence Act 200…
Mental Health Expertise in Refugee Status Decision-Making: Judging or Caring
Therapeutic and legal methodologies address credibility assessment in crucially different ways. These differences can generate mistrust and antipathy between refugee decision-makers and mental health professionals whose expert assessment reports are offered to assist decision-making. The anthropologist Good, quoted above, provides a graphic expression of one aspect of this discipline rift, highlighting the contrast of focus between the decision-m…
Justicia’s Gaze: Surveillance, Evidence and the Criminal Trial
This paper considers the use of the products of surveillance, primarily images, as evidence within the criminal trial. These products, whether static images, video or voice recordings, are increasingly being mediated for the fact-finder via ‘experts’, proffering an opinion about the meaning of some surveillance image, artefact or trace. Common law courts, including those in Australia, the UK, Canada, and the US, have been surprisingly accommodati…
A mixed-method study of expert psychological evidence submitted for a cohort of asylum seekers undergoing refugee status determination in Australia
The Cool Crucible: Forensic Science and the Frailty of the Criminal Trial
Recent developments overseas and in Australia have thrown into question the assumption that the incriminating expert opinion evidence (ie forensic science and forensic medicine) relied on, routinely, in criminal trials is epistemologically robust. At the same time, scepticism about the efficacy of traditional safeguards has been rendered more acute when considering the capacity of the criminal trial to effectively manage incriminating expert evid…
Atkins v The Emperor: The ‘Cautious’ Use of Unreliable ‘Expert’ Opinion
Keywords Expert evidence, CCTV, Facial mapping, Admissibility, Reliability, Identification, Photograph
The trouble with pictures
The trouble with pictures contributes to an emerging field that explores the myriad of relationships between law and visual culture. The last decade or so has seen the consolidation of ‘visual culture’ into a recognised field of interdisciplinary — even postdisciplinary — study, its permeable borders now enclosing law. When Douzinas and Nead published their collection Law and the Image they characterised what has been the traditional relationship…
Popular trials/criminal fictions/celebrity feminism and theBernardo/HomolkaCase
A mixed-method study of expert psychological evidence submitted for a cohort of asylum seekers undergoing refugee status determination in Australia
Atkins v The Emperor: The ‘Cautious’ Use of Unreliable ‘Expert’ Opinion
Keywords Expert evidence, CCTV, Facial mapping, Admissibility, Reliability, Identification, Photograph
Justice is blind as long as it isn’t deaf: Excluding deaf people from jury duty – an Australian human rights breach
In the wake of a recent decision by the High Court of Australia, currently a deaf person, who relies on sign language, is not able to serve as a juror because Australian law does not permit the swearing in of an interpreter as the ‘13th person’ in the jury room. In 2016, the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities found that Australia is in breach of its obligations under the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Di…
Justicia’s Gaze: Surveillance, Evidence and the Criminal Trial
This paper considers the use of the products of surveillance, primarily images, as evidence within the criminal trial. These products, whether static images, video or voice recordings, are increasingly being mediated for the fact-finder via ‘experts’, proffering an opinion about the meaning of some surveillance image, artefact or trace. Common law courts, including those in Australia, the UK, Canada, and the US, have been surprisingly accommodati…
Popular trials/criminal fictions/celebrity feminism and theBernardo/HomolkaCase
The trouble with pictures
The trouble with pictures contributes to an emerging field that explores the myriad of relationships between law and visual culture. The last decade or so has seen the consolidation of ‘visual culture’ into a recognised field of interdisciplinary — even postdisciplinary — study, its permeable borders now enclosing law. When Douzinas and Nead published their collection Law and the Image they characterised what has been the traditional relationship…
Atkins v The Emperor: The ‘Cautious’ Use of Unreliable ‘Expert’ Opinion
Keywords Expert evidence, CCTV, Facial mapping, Admissibility, Reliability, Identification, Photograph
The Cool Crucible: Forensic Science and the Frailty of the Criminal Trial
Recent developments overseas and in Australia have thrown into question the assumption that the incriminating expert opinion evidence (ie forensic science and forensic medicine) relied on, routinely, in criminal trials is epistemologically robust. At the same time, scepticism about the efficacy of traditional safeguards has been rendered more acute when considering the capacity of the criminal trial to effectively manage incriminating expert evid…
Justicia’s Gaze: Surveillance, Evidence and the Criminal Trial
This paper considers the use of the products of surveillance, primarily images, as evidence within the criminal trial. These products, whether static images, video or voice recordings, are increasingly being mediated for the fact-finder via ‘experts’, proffering an opinion about the meaning of some surveillance image, artefact or trace. Common law courts, including those in Australia, the UK, Canada, and the US, have been surprisingly accommodati…
A mixed-method study of expert psychological evidence submitted for a cohort of asylum seekers undergoing refugee status determination in Australia
Mental Health Expertise in Refugee Status Decision-Making: Judging or Caring
Therapeutic and legal methodologies address credibility assessment in crucially different ways. These differences can generate mistrust and antipathy between refugee decision-makers and mental health professionals whose expert assessment reports are offered to assist decision-making. The anthropologist Good, quoted above, provides a graphic expression of one aspect of this discipline rift, highlighting the contrast of focus between the decision-m…
Deaf citizens as jurors in Australian courts: Participating via professional interpreters
Australian deaf citizens are currently not permitted to perform jury duty, primarily due to their inability to hear the evidence and deliberate without the help of interpreters. Although interpreters are routinely employed to interpret for defendants or witnesses in court, current legal frameworks do not permit interpreters to enter the deliberation room as a ‘thirteenth person’, for fear that they may influence the jurors in their decision-makin…
Justice is blind as long as it isn’t deaf: Excluding deaf people from jury duty – an Australian human rights breach
In the wake of a recent decision by the High Court of Australia, currently a deaf person, who relies on sign language, is not able to serve as a juror because Australian law does not permit the swearing in of an interpreter as the ‘13th person’ in the jury room. In 2016, the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities found that Australia is in breach of its obligations under the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Di…
Expert Reports and the Forensic Sciences
All Australian jurisdictions regulate the admission of expert opinion evidence. The rules focus on ‘specialised knowledge’, the existence of a ‘field’, and ‘training, study or experience’.[footnote* In most Australian jurisdictions the admission of expert opinion evidence is governed by s 79 of the Uniform Evidence Law (‘UEL’): see Evidence Act 1995 (Cth); Evidence Act 2011 (ACT); Evidence Act 1995 (NSW); Evidence Act 2001 (Tas); Evidence Act 200…
Contents & Introduction, Law Text Culture, volume 24
This essay introduces a large and diverse special issue on ‘The Acoustics of Justice: Law, Listening, Sound’. Until recently the acoustic dimensions of law and justice were not a major concern in the academy, either in self-consciously legal scholarship, or elsewhere. Things are changing, as indeed the size of this collection suggests. And our hope is that the work gathered here will go some way to addressing this deficit. Nevertheless, this intr…
Special Issue: Genealogies of Indefinite Detention
This introduction provides an overview of the collection of papers in this special issue on genealogies of indefinite detention. This collection of papers builds on the work of Professor Penny Pether (1957 - 2013), in particular her book proposal, ‘“Perverts,” “terrorists,” and business as usual: Comparative Indefinite Detentions before and after 9/11’
On inertia, injustice and the need for reform: Introduction to a special issue on implications of the Folbigg case for the Australian criminal legal system
Political science (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Law in Society and Culture (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Jury Decision Making Processes (3 works) · Business (2 works)