Once every few years the dullness of the British scene is lightened by a Judicial Inquiry. This legal device is quite a modern invention and there are many who greatly wish that it had never been thought of.
A Judicial Inquiry is set up when a scandal breaks affecting some Minister, some department of state or the operation of the law. On such occasions, multi-tongued Rumor has a field day, and the purpose of the Inquiry is to establish what truth may be in the gossip and to clear the air, so far as possible.
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