“Whenever there is a real likelihood that the Judge would, from kindred or any other cause, have a bias in favour of one of the parties, it would be very wrong in him to act, and we are not to be understood to say that where there is a real bias of this sort this Court would not interfere.”

—  Colin Blackburn, Baron Blackburn

Reg. v. Rand (1867), L. R. 1 Q. B. 230.

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