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Drawing on national consultations, practitioner discussions at the LEAP Annual Conferences in Milan and Athens, and Fair Trials' strategic litigation and policy work, the LEAP Annual report examines how EU criminal justice standards operate in practice, and where they fall short.

In her keynote address at the LEAP Annual Conference in Athens in February, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers, Margaret Satterthwaite, examines the growing threats facing independent justice systems and the crucial role of lawyers in protecting the right to a fair trial.