ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The Advisory Council of Jurists thanks its President, Mr Jugnee Amarsanaa, for his skilful chairmanship of the Advisory Council at its meeting. The Advisory Council also expresses its thanks to Mr Sanduijav Bold for interpreting for Mr Amarsanaa. The Advisory Council would like to express its sincere gratitude to Ms Jessica Wyndham for the excellent background paper she provided to the Council for its consideration. The Advisory Council also records its appreciation to Justice Susan Glazebrook and the New Zealand Court of Appeal law clerks, Ms Claire McGuinness, Ms Rosara Joseph, Ms Christine Bassett and Mr Malcolm Birdling, for preparing a working draft of the Report for consideration by the Advisory Council and for their work in helping to finalise the report after the meeting. The Council was greatly aided at the meeting in its deliberations and analysis by Ms Jessica Wyndham of the APF Secretariat, Mr Edouard Delaplace of the Association for the Prevention of Torture and Mr Robert Hesketh, Director, Office of Human Rights Proceedings, New Zealand. The Council would particularly like to acknowledge Ms Wyndham’s role in acting as scribe during the meeting. The Council also wishes to acknowledge the able and expert assistance of the Secretariat, and, in particular, Mr Stephen Clark without whose untiring efforts this Report would not have been completed. The Council is grateful to the MacArthur Foundation for the financial support it provided for the preparation of the background paper and the meeting of the Council in Mongolia. 2