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The following suggestions are intended to facilitate the reader’s consultation of the Legal
Digest of International Fair Trial Rights.
Hyperlinks
The Legal Digest features hyperlinks to additional information and resources throughout.
Those hyperlinks contained in the main body of the main text direct readers to relevant and
related sections elsewhere in the publication. Click on the link to jump to the related text, or
press the Alt+left arrow keys if you wish to jump back to the original place in the document.
Hyperlinks in the footnotes provide readers with direct access to resources elsewhere on the
Internet. Many of these are links to the case law of the UN Human Rights Committee and
the European Court of Human Rights. A list of those cases and their web addresses can be
found at the end of the publication in two separate annexes.
Glossary
The glossary contained in Chapter 11 lists and provides definitions for the legal terms used in
this publication. Words that are featured in the glossary appear in bold throughout the text.
Checklists
The Legal Digest is complemented by practical checklists. The checklists are the result of
years of OSCE trial monitoring experience aimed at assisting trial monitoring practitioners
with tools that will help them recognize violations of fair trial rights in their daily observation of case proceedings. They are not intended to be exhaustive, as they do not present
a comprehensive account of all circumstances that may give rise to a violation of fair trial
rights. Therefore, they are to be taken as guidance for trial monitoring programme managers
engaged in designing tools to support trial monitoring activities. Consulting these checklists
alongside ODIHR’s Trial Monitoring: A Reference Manual for Practitioners, will also be
highly beneficial in this respect.11
11 Trial Monitoring: A Reference Manual for Practitioners, op. cit. note 5.
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