The International Justice Tribune

• IJT bases its professional credibility on an extremely rigorous approach to the criminal justice process. As a magazine specialised in questions involving fundamental principals and judicial proceedings, it is as accurate as possible on the legal processes covered.
   
• IJT is not only a trustworthy technical source; it also critically monitors the way legal institutions respect the law, and by so doing, is mindful of the needs of its readership of jurists and human rights activists.
   
• IJT offers, in addition to factual and analytical reports often not found elsewhere, a critical, investigative approach to international justice. It is open to a multi-disciplinary analysis that re-establishes the historical, social or political perspectives of a justice that often has considerable implications for the future of a country. Therefore its approach cannot be purely legal.
   
• IJT focuses special attention on the interaction between justice and the society impacted by the crimes being judged. One of its priorities is to consider the meaning of this justice for the society concerned, a factor which is often overlooked by external observers.
   
• IJT, when covering cases brought before tribunals, does not adopt, on principle and out of respect for the legal process, partisan positions before, during or after the trial process. It offers analytical and often critical accounts, but does not give an opinion on individual cases. The only legitimate and judicious exception to this rule would be if it were convinced that a mis-trial or legal error had taken place that required investigation.
   
• IJT does not support any party or process and gives equal consideration to the prosecution and the defence, to victims and suspects, in the strictest respect for individual rights.
   
• IJT, in its reports on legal institutions, firmly asserts its independence from the latter, consonant with its role as the Fourth Estate.
   
• IJT is not exhaustive. It does not provide "neutral" and exhaustive legal minutes, rather in-depth articles on specific angles, chosen for their current relevance. Its aim is to make sense of often-unclear technical and legal processes, and to prevent underlying political motivations from being deliberately obscured. It asserts that observing a legal process is a remarkably rich way of engaging with the history of a country, of broadening historical knowledge and of evaluating the social challenges that the legal process throws up.
   
• IJT employs all forms of classical journalism - reporting, legal coverage, investigative, analysis and interviewing. However, editorials will only be published in exceptional circumstances.