PART Ⅰ Introduction to consular access 1
1 Overview of consular access 3
2 Role of consuls in assisting a national 16
PART Ⅱ Consular access obligations of a receiving state 31
3 Situations requiring advice about consular access 33
4 Individuals who must be advised 39
5 Timing of consular access 47
6 Confidentiality of communication 59
7 Automatic notification under bilateral treaties 64
PART Ⅲ The rights of a foreign national 71
8 Rights assertable against the receiving state 73
9 Consular access as a due process right 87
10 Statutory right to sending state protection 97
11 Non-statutory right to sending state protection 102
PART Ⅳ Consular access in domestic law 109
12 Incorporation into domestic law 111
13 Subsidiary regulation and legislation 115
14 Availability of a judicial remedy 123
15 Domestic effect of international decisions 132
PART Ⅴ Remedies at the domestic level 141
16 Prejudice as a prerequisite for a judicial remedy 143
17 Suppression of evidence as a judicial remedy 162
18 Procedural default as barring a remedy 176
19 Consular access violation as grounds for sentence reduction or clemency 180
20 Monetary damages for a foreign national 185
21 Intervention in court by a sending state 190
22 Civil suit by a sending state 195
PART Ⅵ Remedies at the international level 199
23 Diplomatic protest by a sending state 201
24 Jurisdiction in the International Court ofJustice 206
25 Jurisdiction in Inter-American human rights organs 210
PART Ⅶ An overview of consular access litigation 217
26 Proceedings in the International Court of Justice 219
27 Proceedings in the Inter-American human rights system 247
Appendix： Vienna Convention on Consular Relations 258
Bibliography 288
Index 295