3 Acknowledgements Fair Trials and REDRESS would like to thank the partners and staff of Allen & Overy for pro bono research support provided in respect of the laws of Australia, Brazil, China, England and Wales, France, Germany, Indonesia, Japan, Spain, Thailand, the USA and Vietnam, and for logistical support from teams in Belfast and London. Thank you, in particular, to the following individuals: Suzannah Bahen-Wright, Audrey Bartosh, Dirk Branford, Wolf Bussian, Bunga Cesaria, Anthony Christianto, Paul Fortin, Laura Gomez, Daniel Grimwood, Tarsis Halintar, Olivia Hardy, Victor Ho, Ignacio Hornedo, Osamu Ito, David Jenaway, Hayley Jones, Aditi Kapoor, Putu Shanti Krisnadevi, Tara Lewis, Sen Liang, Javier Mendieta, Heather Mowbray, Quy Nguyen, Stefan Nigam, Yuki Ojima, Joanna Page, Alexandra Pedder, Maria Perez-Hernandez, Dustin Plotnick, Tu Quach, Harun Reksodiputro, Lara Ruiz, Bagus Wicaksono Ruswandi, Shafira Satrio, David Schmid, Leif Schubert, David Siesage, Zachary Sinemus, Elizabeth Staves, Dai Tajima, Chau Uong, Jimena Urretavizcaya, Eliza Wallace and Marianne Webber. About Allen & Overy has the largest global footprint of any major law firm, with 44 offices in 31 countries. With this comes a real opportunity to make a difference around the world. We know that by behaving responsibly as a business we will retain the trust and loyalty of our clients, our staff and the wider community. Our pro bono and community investment programme uses the skills and time of our people, and our global reach, to tackle pressing social issues. We focus on two major themes: i) access to justice; and ii) access to education and employment. Within these themes, we bring together our resources and experience on multi-jurisdictional projects, as well as working to address local need in communities in which we have an office. This ranges from staffing evening free legal advice clinics for low income individuals and providing strategic support to the education sector to developing the rule of law in emerging economies through training and knowledge exchange. We partner with a wide range of organisations in our pro bono and community investment work to achieve results including, for example, with leading non-profit organisations such as Fair Trials and REDRESS to support access to justice, or with social enterprises to broaden access to the world of work. We are known for providing our clients with pioneering solutions to the toughest legal challenges. We work hard to achieve the same levels of excellence in our pro bono and community investment work as in everything else we do. We are delighted to have been invited by Fair Trials and REDRESS to assist on this project and to support their essential work countering the practice of torture. For more information on Allen & Overy, please see: Web: www.allenovery.com Twitter: @AllenOvery