10 Legal Digest of International Fair Trial Rights curriculum that builds on the Legal Digest and aims at enhancing the capacity of legal professionals and NGOs to set up and conduct their own trial monitoring programmes. Thus, by making the OSCE’s trial monitoring expertise available for the use of legal practitioners and civil society, ODIHR works towards ensuring the sustainability of OSCE trial monitoring programmes. This publication is the result of a long and participatory consultation process that started on 9 July 2010 with the establishment of an Advisory Board comprised of representatives of nine OSCE field operations and ODIHR.4 This body has since assisted ODIHR with the development of tools to serve the objectives of enhancing the professionalism and efficiency of trial monitoring programmes, building the institutional memory of the OSCE and ensuring the sustainability of OSCE trial monitoring programmes. The Legal Digest represents one of these tools. It is complemented by ODIHR’s Trial Monitoring: A Reference Manual for Practitioners, which was first published in 2008 and includes a collection of methodologies, tools and techniques for trial monitoring.5 Therefore, readers are encouraged to consult both guides in their trial monitoring activities. ODIHR would like to express its appreciation to Alex Conte, who drafted the Legal Digest. Likewise, the Office would wish to thank the Advisory Board for its contribution,6 without which the Legal Digest would have not been able to reach this scale and standard. Finally, ODIHR is grateful for the generous contributions of OSCE participating States whose funding made this publication possible. 4 OSCE Presence in Albania, OSCE Office in Baku, OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, OSCE Mission in Kosovo, OSCE Mission to Montenegro, OSCE Mission to Serbia, OSCE Mission to Skopje, OSCE Office in Yerevan, OSCE Office in Zagreb. 5 Trial Monitoring: A  Reference Manual for Practitioners, (Warsaw: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, 2008). 6 See supra, footnote No. 4.