112 Trial Monitoring: A Reference Manual for Practitioners Examples reports on specific cases or types of cases167 • All regular reports of the Rule 11bis Project of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina that reported publicly on the progress of the indicted cases transferred from the ICTY to the Court of BiH for trial, pursuant to Rule 11bis of ICTY Rules of Procedure and Evidence (over 60 reports from 2006). • “The Response of the Justice System to the March 2004 Riots” (2005) and “Four Years Later, Follow up of March 2004 Riots Cases before the Kosovo Criminal Justice System”, OSCE Mission in Kosovo (2008). • “Case Report: The Public Prosecutor’s Office vs Latif Gashi, Rrustem Mustafa, Naim Kadriu and Nazif Mehmeti: The ‘Llapi Case’”, OSCE Mission in Kosovo (2003). • “The Successful Suppression of Election Regularities (The Election Cases)”, Coalition All for Fair Trials, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (2005). 167 12.2.4 Other regular and frequent public reports The three types of general public reports described above aim at providing in-depth treatments of a particular subject matter, based upon monitoring efforts and information that has been compiled over the course of an extended monitoring term. As a result, most large public reports require lengthy drafting, consultation and production efforts. One way for programmes to supplement periodic public reporting is by issuing short, monthly reports that allow for more regular contact with and feedback to and from local actors. Regular reports can be issued according to any schedule suitable to the aims and capacity of a programme. Some programmes may issue quarterly reports. Monthly reports may be especially useful for programmes that have established visibility and credibility through an initial public report and are engaged in a comprehensive reform process.168 Such reports constitute a regular means of providing information and raising awareness of issues that may be different each time or be recurring. Monthly reports may also serve as informal professional newsletters in regions where professional periodicals or other training materials or opportunities are limited. In such a context, the monitoring results and other information in monthly reports may provide the only regular source of information on national practice received by all courts and legal actors. 12.2.5 Organizing trial-monitoring public reports Although reports may differ in content, all aim at presenting monitoring results and conclusions in a manner that both informs and influences policymakers, officials, institutions and legal actors to take specific actions. The following paragraphs provide specific guidance and a selection of good practices that have been used in connection with organizing the basic components of public trialmonitoring reports. ·· General structural elements of analysis and advice on uniform writing The general structure used by many trial-monitoring programmes in their reports mirrors, to some degree, the legal reasoning found in judicial decisions and other legal writings. This structure includes the following elements: 167  See also Chapter 20.3 where examples of ad hoc trial monitoring reports are provided. 168  In 2005, in response to the challenge of communicating more regularly with the local legal community, the LSMS at the Mission in Kosovo began disseminating to courts and judges short monthly (as of 2011 bi-monthly) reports in addition to its yearly reviews. These reports include examples of both good and problematic practices relating to cases monitored during the period, with reference to applicable local and international law. The experience of LSMS staff is that reports have raised the visibility of the programme and have increased positive interaction and information exchange with local judges, prosecutors and lawyers.