0 a court or other group that meets privately and makes judgments that can be severe -- （私自集会并作出严厉判决的）星室法庭；专断暴虐的团体
Ministers compete in the star chamber for funds.
The star chamber is quite different.
The star chamber is not the way to handle these matters.
If someone is dragged along to a star chamber court and put before a judge, there is an assumption that one must answer.
That is not an inquiry; it is a modified form of star chamber.
Is not the star chamber sitting on it?
The court of star chamber even decides which countries are considered for debt write-off.
But the aim was certainly not to set up some additional star chamber to police those concerns.
