| Source: | All England Reporter |
| Publisher Citation: | [2005] All ER (D) 27 (Dec) |
| Neutral Citation: | [2005] EWHC 2786 (Ch) |
| Court: | Chancery Division |
| Judge: | Evans-Lombe J |
| Representation | Charles Aldous QC, Charles Bear QC and Dominic O'Sullivan (instructed by Herbert Smith) for the claimants. |
| Lawrence Cohen QC and Amanda Harrington (instructed by Decherts) for the first defendant. | |
| Philip Marshall QC, Deepak Namidan (instructed by Olswang) for the second defendant. | |
| Judgment Dates: | 1 December 2005 |
Catchwords
Natural justice - Judge - Bias - Witness - In the course of pre-reading judge discovering that witness proposed to be called by claimants personally known to him - Whether judge should recuse himself from trying case.
The Case
In the circumstances and applying the test established by case authority the judge was satisfied that he should dismiss the defendants' application that he should recuse himself from trying the case.
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