A curiosity of the legal system is that the person being accused of bias gets to make a ruling about whether they are or not. Moves for change are afoot.
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Should judges be able to decide whether they are biased against a litigant? Not on your nelly, according to a review ordered by the federal government into judicial bias.
It’s one of the curiosities of the legal system that the person who is being accused of bias gets to make a ruling about whether they are or not.
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