Robin Callender Smith, Visiting Professorial fellow at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, has been appointed by the Council of Europe to lead a team of experts to report on measures to improve access, protection of personal data and general transparency issues relating to criminal judicial decision-making in Kazakhstan.Two other members of the seven-person team are also QMUL School of Law LLM graduates: Olga Demian (LLM 2010) from Moldova and Eva Ondřejová (LLM 2012) from the Czech Republic. The other four team members are from Estonia and Italy. The report will be presented to the Kazakhstan Supreme Court in Astana on 13 November 2015.