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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.

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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.

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