[2023] NZEmpC 118 Halse v Hamilton City Council [pdf, 209 KB]
...necessarily disfavours someone — Judges upset at least half of the people all of the time — and every ruling issued during a proceeding may thus give rise to an appearance of partiality in a broad sense to whoever is disfavoured by the ruling… [101] We know of no common law jurisdiction which accepts that a judge's adverse rulings are disqualifying per se. The problem is rather whether an aggrieved litigant should be permitted to seek recusal on the basis of rulings that are...