The Commissions of Investigation Bill is the Government's proposal to have an alternative system of inquiry to that of tribunals. It is interesting because it does not stipulate that judges must do this kind of work at all. In fact, it does not even stipulate that lawyers should necessarily do it. The interesting point about the new proposal is that adversarial advocacy, etc., would not be required in proceedings. Proceedings could be conducted in private, such as the Scott inquiry into the arms-for-Iraq affair or perhaps more like the more recent inquiry concerning the Iraq war. Iraq seems to be the constant fertile source of inquiries.