ABSTRACT
This chapter and those that follow provide documents on various aspects of consular access. The documents included in this chapter reflect the types of services a consul may provide to a national who has been arrested. Knowledge of what consuls do for an arrested national is critical to understanding what consular access means to a national. It is also critical to determining what consequences should follow when consular access is not respected by the authorities of the receiving state. A court considering whether to provide a remedy for a violation of consular access obligations may want to know what services would have been provided had a consul been involved.
