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CHAPTER 5: Establishment of an Information-Management System
5.1 Case-registration charts
5.2 Advanced information-management systems
5.3 Systems for recording other types of information
5.4 Protecting confidential and sensitive information
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CHAPTER 6; Main Aims, Outputs and Methods of Systemic Trial Monitoring
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CHAPTER 7: Programme Structure and Staffing Issues
7.1 Trial-monitoring field structure and organization
7.2 Supervisory structure and responsibilities
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7.2.1 Higher management responsibilities and staffing
7.2.2 Middle management responsibilities and staffing
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Monitors
7.3.1 Size of the monitoring team
7.3.2 Recruitment
7.3.3 Contract obligations
7.3.4 Nationality of monitors
CHAPTER 8: Conduct and Capacity-Building of Trial-Monitoring Staff
8.1 Standards of conduct for trial-monitoring staff
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Duty of non-intervention
Duty of impartiality
Duty of professionalism
Duty of confidentiality
Monitoring instructions
Legal reference materials
8.3.1 Considerations regarding legal reference materials
8.3.2 Creating a legal reference manual as a field support tool
8.3.3 A manual as an educational resource for building domestic capacity
Training sessions
8.4.1 Scope of training
8.4.2 Using external trainers and experts
8.4.3 External educational opportunities
Other field support activities and mechanisms
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Regular feedback on monitoring and reporting
Regular team meetings
Internal report sharing
Monitor pairing
Monitor rotation
Structures for supporting the trial monitors’ well-being
Structures for ensuring trial monitors’ security
CHAPTER 9: Information Gathering and Verification in Systemic Trial Monitoring
9.1 Identification of cases to monitor according to monitoring priorities
9.2 Trial observation in courtrooms
9.3 Interviews with justice actors and stakeholders
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Interviews with judges, prosecutors and legal representatives
Interviews with bar associations, legal clinics or legal aid groups
Interviews with defendants, especially when deprived of liberty
Interviews with injured parties, witnesses, and organizations involved in supporting
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