[9] They coordinated research across 90 countries, assessing the legal and human rights implications and providing recommendations in a report, "The Disappearing Trial".
It has worked for the proper implementation of EU law, through strategic litigation and training[13] and has helped people access local expertise by producing "Notes of Advice"[14] on criminal proceedings and justice systems in Europe.
Additionally, Fair Trials set up the Legal Experts Advisory Panel (LEAP),[15] which is an EU-wide network of experts in criminal justice and human rights working to promote fair and effective judicial cooperation within Europe, as well as informing the EU's work on criminal justice.
In 2013, Fair Trials released a report[21][22] which identified two major areas for INTERPOL reform: Fair Trials has met with Interpol on multiple occasions[23][24] as part of an ongoing dialogue between the two organisations to prevent the abuse of its systems.
[27] Woodward was found guilty of second degree murder, although her sentence was reduced on appeal as the court found that there was no malice in Louise's actions and that "allowing this defendant on this evidence to remain convicted of second-degree murder would be a miscarriage of justice.
"[28] In 2007, 10 years later, the key prosecution witness reversed his evidence stating: "the science we have today could, in fact, have exonerated Louise.
Although evidence against him was deeply flawed and his innocence could be proven, he was extradited to Greece on a European Arrest Warrant and held in prison for a year before being acquitted in 2011.