A public inquiry, also called a tribunal of inquiry, government inquiry, or simply an inquiry, is an official review of events or actions ordered by a government body, often through a parliamentary inquiry committee. In common law countries such as the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, and Canada, a public inquiry differs from a royal commission in that it takes evidence and conducts hearings in a more public forum and focuses on a more specific occurrence. Interested members of the public and organizations may make written submissions, as happens in most inquiries, and may also listen to oral evidence given by other parties. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Institution TypePolitical and legal institution: an official review of events or actions ordered by a government body, distinguished in common law countries from a royal commission by its more public evidentiary procedure. 1 Emergence PeriodNot datable to one single origin across jurisdictions; France's formal expropriation-inquiry procedure was established by a law of 7 July 1833 extending an earlier 1810 law, and Ireland's tribunal-of-inquiry framework by the Tribunals of Inquiry (Evidence) Act 1921. 1 In the Other Atlases
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In many common law countries, such as the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, and Canada, such an inquiry differs from a royal commission in that a public inquiry accepts evidence and conducts its hearings in a more public forum and focuses on a more specific occurrence.
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is an official review of events or actions ordered by a government body
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