ALLEGATIONS OF JUDICIAL BIAS AND THE INFORMED OBSERVER TEST: THE LAW AND PRACTICE

In Kimyani -v- Sandhu [2017] EWHC 151 (Ch) Master Matthews dealt with the difficult issue of a litigant alleging judicial bias.  This judgment emphasises the fact that the test is one of the fair minded and informed observer and not that of the litigant in question. "There is something rather unreal...