This is a list of special or exceptional tribunals and courts for the trying of people. Sometimes, courts that don't try people but curtail political freedoms are also derogatively called "special tribunals," as well as court that establish a privileged jurisdiction for powerful individuals or the government. List coverage is through history and world wide.

• Revolutionary Tribunal
  Revolutionary Tribunal
  The Revolutionary Tribunal was a court which was instituted in Paris by the Convention during the French Revolution for the trial of political offenders, and eventually became one of the most powerful engines of the Reign of Terror....
  
   (France, 1792-1795)
• Exchequer Court of Canada (Canada, 1875-1971)
• Special Tribunal for the Defense of the State (Italy, 1926-1943)
• Sondergerichte
  Sondergerichte
  A Sondergericht was a Nazi "special court." After taking power in 1933, the Nazis quickly moved to remove internal opposition to the Nazi regime in Germany. The legal system became one of many tools for this aim and the Nazis gradually supplanted the normal justice system with political courts...
  
   (Germany, 1933-1945)
• People's Court (Germany) (Germany, 1934-1945)
• Special Tribunal for the Defense of the RSI State (Italy, 1943-1945)
• Court of Parties (Egypt, 1977-)
• Tribunal de Orden Público
  Tribunal de Orden Público
  Tribunal de Orden Público was a special court for political crimes in Francoist Spain....
  
   (Spain, 1963-1977)
• Audiencia Nacional of Spain
  Audiencia Nacional of Spain
  The Audiencia Nacional is a a special and exceptional high court in Spain. It has its seat in Madrid and jurisdiction over all of Spain and international crimes which come under the competence of Spanish courts....
  
   (Spain, 1977-)
• Iraqi Special Tribunal (Iraq, 2003-)
• Special Tribunal for Lebanon
  Special Tribunal for Lebanon
  The Special Tribunal for Lebanon is an international tribunal for the prosecution under Lebanese law of those responsible for the assassination of Rafic Hariri on February 14, 2005. The tribunal also has jurisdiction over a series of other attacks in Lebanon if they are proven to be connected...
  
   (2009-)

See also

• Show trial
  Show trial
  The term show trial is a pejorative description of a type of highly public trial in which there is a strong connotation that the judicial authorities have already determined the guilt of the defendant. The actual trial has as its only goal to present the accusation and the verdict to the public as...
  
  
• Political trial
  Political trial
  A political trial is a criminal trial with political implications. A composite definition of a political trial might be "an examination before a court concerning the conduct of governmental affairs or somehow relating to government." T. Becker writes that "in a sense, all trials are political...
  
  
• A. V. Dicey
  A. V. Dicey
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  's principle that people should not be judged by special courts.