W (Children: Reopening/Recusal) [2020] EWCA Civ 1685

Recusal: By all appearances

Lehna Gardiner and Helen Lafferty analyse when a judge may need to be recused and the test to be applied If there is a possibility that a judge has been, or may be, influenced for or against a party, for any reasons outside of the legal or factual merits of the case, then the judge …

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Recusal: All above board

Anna-Laura Lock and Selena Arbe-Barnes look at the cab rank rule and when the court may be permitted to prevent counsel from accepting instructions It is not necessary to demonstrate that actual unfairness will result from counsel’s participation in proceedings; in view of the maxim that justice must not only be done, but be seen …

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