In modern usage, legal or administrative bodies with strict, arbitrary rulings and secretive proceedings are sometimes called, metaphorically or poetically, "star chambers".
Is it not those who are lucky enough to work in the public sector who will gain most from the transformation of the star chamber into the school tuck shop?
The star chamber is quite different.
That is not an inquiry; it is a modified form of star chamber.
If someone is dragged along to a star chamber court and put before a judge, there is an assumption that one must answer.
The court of star chamber even decides which countries are considered for debt write-off.
The star chamber is not the way to handle these matters.
It is a star chamber, and it is manifestly inadequate as the only appeal court against the exercise of such powers.
