 Shameem is best known for her trials since the 2000 Fijian coup d'état conviction and sentencing of perpetrators of the 2000 Fijian coup d'état, in which the government of Mahendra Chaudhry was deposed in May 2000.She also heard a number of cases in which she was very critical of prison conditions for remand prisoners in Fiji.In 2005, she declared the remand centre in Suva inhumane and degrading and in breach of the Fiji Constitution.