england-and-wales court tribunal inquisitorial
Do any judicial bodies in England have inquisitorial powers?
<p>England mostly follows common law, an adversarial system which is the opposite of the inquisitorial judicial system.</p>
<p>That said, are there deviations and variations from this in any of its judicial bodies, including courts, and tribunals, and any others?</p>

<h2>Judicial bodies are typically not inquisitorial</h2>
<p>That said, under the doctrine of Parliamentary Sovereignty in the UK, they can make special purpose courts that are inquisitorial - the Coroner’s Court being an example.</p>
<p>Tribunals can be because they are administrative decision makers, not judicial decision makers. The statute that creates them will tell them how to operate. The granddaddy of all tribunals, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_commission" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Royal Commission</a>, is explicitly inquisitorial.</p>
