Acknowledgements Fair Trials is very grateful for all of the support that has been provided to it in the course of developing this report. In particular, we thank our pro bono partner Freshfields, without whose time, expertise, contacts and commitment, the project would not have been possible. In particular we thank Holly Williams, James Williamson, Matthew Bruce, Barney O’Kelly, Sharon Metcalf and Paul Yates. We are indebted to the many lawyers, law firms and experts around the world who provided information on the operation of trial waiver systems in their jurisdictions. Not all of those who assisted with this research wished to be named. Those that did include: KALO & ASSOCIATES, Vieira de Almeida & Associados, Dr Francisco Castex, M & M Bomchil, Concern Dialog, Clayton Utz, Vlasova Mikhel & Partners, Bufete Aguirre, Marić & Co., Collins Newman & Co., Machado Meyer, CARDOSO DA CUNHA advogados, Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP, Appleby (Cayman) Ltd, Carey y Cía. Ltda, Brigard & Urrutia Abogados, Gómez Penalistas Abogados, Emery Mukendi Wafwana & Associates, Aguilar Castillo Love, Savoric & Partners, PRK Partners, Kromann Reumert, Matouk Bassiouny, Centurion LLP, SORAINEN, Teshome Gabre-Mariam Bokan Law Office, Roschier, BGI Advisory Services Georgia, ENSafrica Ghana, KYRIAKIDES GEORGOPOULOS Law Firm, Mayora & Mayora, Oppenheim, Márton Melléthei-Barna, LOGOS, Platinum Partners, Soemadipradja & Taher, McCann FitzGerald, Ogier, Bowmans (Coulson Harney), Kinstellar, Marxer & Partner Rechtsanwälte, Arendt & Medernach, Polenak Law Firm, Bowmans, John W Ffooks & Co., Skrine, Uteem Chambers, Creel García-Cuéllar Aiza y Enríquez, ARLEX Consulting Services, Bennani & Associés LLP, Henriques, Rocha & Associados, DFDL, Engling, Stritter & Partners, Bell Gully, Aluko & Oyebode, Thommessen, Vellani & Vellani, Rodrigo Elias & Medrano, SyCip Salazar Hernandez & Gatmaitan, Domański Zakrzewski Palinka, NNDKP, Shepherd and Wedderburn LLP, BDK Advokati, Kim & Chang, Niederer Kraft & Frey AG, East African Law Chambers, Siam Premier, Hergüner Bilgen Özeke, Atherstone & Cook, Javier Carrasco, Eduardo Gómez Cuadrado, Alejandro Gamez Selma, Magyar Gábor, Jorge Arturo Gutiérrez Muñoz, Ondřej Múka, Mikolaj Pietrzak, George Pyromallis, Ketevan Chomakhashvili, Girshel Dzebniauri, Prof. Dr Dieter Schmidtchen, Dr Anne Wehnert, Prof. Dr Matthias Jahn, Prof. Dr Michael Kubiciel, Dr Regina E. Rauxloh, New Zealand Law Society, Rob Quin, Karen Harding, Robert Lithgow, Paul Heaslip, Steven Zindel, Anne Stevens, Allister Davis, John Dixon, Chris Wilkinson-Smith, James Cairney, Kris Gledhill, Janine Bonifant, Denise Wallwork, Melanie Coxon, Marie Dyhrberg QC, David Harvey, Gary L. Turkington, New Zealand Public Defence Service, Rebecca Plunket, Grant Tyrrell, Anna Longdill, Todd Simmonds, John Dean, New Zealand Crown Law Office, Snezana Stanojković, Jugoslav Tintor, Slobodan Beljanski, Miljko Radisavljevic, Aleksandar Trešnjev, Danilo L. Nikolić, Sergey Pashin, Singapore Attorney General’s Chambers, Jonathan Wong, Chen Chee Yen, Professor Gerhard Kemp, Johann Engelbrecht SC, Amanda Vilakazi, Andre Chetty, and the Research & Policy Information Unit and various Prosecutors at South Africa’s National Prosecuting Authority. We also wish to recognise the organisations and individuals who have consulted with us in various venues throughout the course of the research and drafting for this report. • Participants at the Washington Roundtable, November 2015: Albert Alschuler, Daniel Arshak, Mike Cassidy, L.B. Eisen, Jamie Fellner, John Gleeson, Nina Ginsberg, Nancy Hollander, Kyle O’Dowd, Mary Price, Cynthia Roseberry, Martin Schöenteich, Stephen Schulhofer, Nkechi Taifa, Nicole Taylor, and Jasmine Tyler. Special thanks to the Open Society Foundations Human Rights Initiative for hosting the roundtable. • Participants in the Pan African Lawyers Union Panel, October 2016 (with additional thanks to the Pan African Lawyers Union itself for inviting our presentation, and to ROLE UK for funding it): Chino Obiagwu, Edwin Okello, and Agata Stajer. • Participants in the Civil Society Roundtable on guilty pleas in England and Wales, April 2016: on guilty pleas in England and Wales: Eleanor Butt, Peter Dawson, and Ruth Pope (Sentencing Council of England and Wales). • Participants in the RCN Network Conference “Understanding Guilty Pleas”, October 2016 (with special thanks to Shawn Bushway). We also wish to thank Fair Trials interns and fellows who have contributed to this report, in particular: Oliver Adams, Amanda June Gargus, María Antonia González, Clara Hjorth, Klára Lukášová, and Lady Gené Waszkewitz.