The monitoring of court practice implemented in the course of 2016 follows the objectives and methodology of the previous analyses from the period 2011-2015. It was performed through two types of activities. The first one includes the observing of court proceedings by ASTRA’s researchers. The proceedings were in the most cases conducted in relation to trafficking in human beings and related offences, specifically mediation in prostitution and trafficking in minors for adoption. The researchers entered all the relevant data from the monitored trials into special forms – questionnaires. The second activity, as it has been so far, is the analysis of judgments obtained from competent courts which were passed during 2016 in first-instance and appellate criminal proceedings for the above listed offences.