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RIGHT TO A FAIR TRIAL UNDER THE EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS (ARTICLE 6) interights MAnUAL FOr LAWYers | cUrrent As At septeMber 07 prOdUced With the generOUs sUppOrt OF the Open sOcietY institUte

INTERIGHTS Manual for Lawyers – Right to A Fair Trial under the ECHR (Article 6)

Handbook Staff externAL editOrs/ AUthOrs internAL editOrs/ AUthOrs Yonko Grozev, Dovydas Vitkauskas Sîan Lewis-Anthony Doina Ioana Straisteanu Dina Vedernikova AssistAnt editOr/ series cOOrdinAtOr tYpesetting + design Arpine Avetisyan Tom Carpenter

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INTERIGHTS International Advisory Council Prof Philip Alston Florence Butegwa Roger Errera Prof Yash P. Ghai Asma Khader Prof Harold Koh Viviana Krsticevic Marek A. Nowicki Sonia Picado Prof Gerard Quinn Dr Mary Robinson Prof Martin Scheinin Suriya Wickremasinghe

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INTERIGHTS Manual for Lawyers – Right to A Fair Trial under the ECHR (Article 6)

Using this Manual This manual has been designed by interights’ Europe Programme for its training projects in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet union. Its purpose was serve as a reference for lawyers on the European Convention on Human Rights. The manual is formatted so that it can be updated periodically on interights’
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