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…She would therefore seek their disqualification. As we understand it, Mrs Dias alleges that the four Judges of this Court were in fact actually biased against the appellant.…

…In that case, the mere fact that he is a party to the action or has a financial or proprietary interest in its outcome is sufficient to cause his automatic disqualification.…

…There was no formal application supported by an affidavit as is required but at his request I agreed to hear the application for my disqualification.…

…Subject to certain limited exceptions, a judge or magistrate should not accede to an unfounded disqualification application.”…

…Vs Lannon (1969) 1 QB 577 stated that disqualification was imperative even in the absence of a real likelihood of bias if a reasonable man would reasonably suspect bias.…

…If the answer is in the affirmative, disqualification would be inevitable." 15. The point was also finely put in the case of Attorney General of Kenya vs Prof.…

…Parliament's deliberate allocation of that power to criminal courts, conditioned on conviction, underscores that a civil court cannot grant, in a civil suit, relief that effectively amounts to the same disqualification without…

…The litigant who seeks disqualification of a judge comes to court because of his own perception that there is appearance of bias on the part of the judge.…

…The litigant who seeks disqualification of a judge comes to court because of his own perception that there is appearance of bias on the part of the judge.…

…So the words “from any cause whatsoever”, must be limited to the causes recognised by the Act, namely, death, resignation, incapacity and disqualification.…