Saxmere Company Ltd v Wool Board Disestablishment Company Ltd - [2010] 1 NZLR 35

Courts — Recusal — Apparent bias — Business and personal relationship between judge and counsel — Counsel member of independent Bar — Whether and when judge to recuse self — Fair-minded lay observer — Information about legal system to be attributed to observer — Disclosure by judge.

Administrative law — Natural justice — Apparent bias — Business and personal relationship between judge and counsel — Counsel member of independent Bar — Whether and when judge to recuse self — Fair-minded lay observer — Information about legal system to be attributed to observer.