Created at the initiative of the Lyon Judicial Court and in partnership with the newspaper Libération, the Noir and Justice Award is awarded each year to a non-fiction literary work (investigation, true crime, testimony, etc.) with a link to justice or miscellaneous news item. En 2025, The jury was made up of 4 magistrates (including the president and the public prosecutor) and 3 registry officials (including the registry director) from the Lyon judicial court, a lawyer from the Lyon bar (member of its cultural committee), the colonel commanding the Rhône departmental gendarmerie group, a journalist from Libération, a representative from Quais du Polar and Maëlle Arnaud, Programming Director at the Institut Lumière.