Alternatively, if the government has a compelling reason for having the Secretary of State as the primary decision maker rather than a judicial office holder, they must set out those reasons in public and in detail. It is insufficient simply to invoke the fact that that is the way public inquiries do things: the question the government needs to answer is ‘why is that approach more appropriate for the Legacy Commission than the process used in Closed Material Procedures and Public Interest Immunity cases’. (Recommendation, Paragraph 40) 91