Commissions of inquiry in Uganda are established by the law which governs their
processes and procedures. In the main, their mandate is to inquire into the conduct of any
officer in the public service or management of any department of the public service or into any matter of which an inquiry would be for the public welfare. However, in Uganda commissions of inquiry appear on a trajectory of increased judicialization in their processes and conduct. This amounts to a problematic deviation from what the legal regime bars, that is the Constitution, the Commissions of Inquiry Act and several precedents in case law read together. There is both documentary and anecdotal evidence of this increased judicialization. 
The judicialization of inquiries in Uganda has manifested itself in the issuing of injunctive orders, a shift in procedures from inquisitorial to adversarial…

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