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Amid push for reforms, judges refuse to recuse themselves time and again
Associate Justice Patricia Matthews 2023-01-18 4:09 pm By Sam Matthews Melbourne
Requests by litigants for judges to disqualify themselves from presiding over cases were largely denied last year, in a raft of decisions containing lessons for litigants weighing up their own recusal bids in 2023.
Judge rejects recusal bid in barrister’s disciplinary case for ‘none of your business’ remark
Anya Poukchanski 2022-10-26 3:42 pm By Sam Matthews Melbourne
A judge has refused to recuse herself from hearing disciplinary proceedings brought against a barrister over complaints that she used “judicially inappropriate words” at an interlocutory hearing.