ABSTRACT
The often-repeated allegations of 'verballing', or the fabricating of evidence by police, led to the introduction of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act (PACE) 1984 in England, which placed as a matter of legal requirement the onus on police, whenever possible, to make a contemporaneous audio or video recording of verbal evidence. Semioticians are familiar with the subject of non-verbal communication in the context of proxemics. It is the intention of this chapter to critically analyse how meanings are made and how reality is represented in the courtroom via this computer-mediated interpersonal tool of communication commonly referred to as a 'prison video link' in New South Wales (NSW) is Australia's most populous state, located in the far east of the country, north of Victoria and south of Queensland. It also critically analyse the court video system as a process of non-verbal communication and the value of video technology as a tool through which to administer justice.
