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Just imagine what fuel would have been added to the fire had the other side been a LiP, already burdened by a sense of injustice and suspicion that all lawyers and the judicial system are against them. It is the perception of bias here that is the issue, not whether there was actual bias. The judicial handbook is right in the caveat it lays down about judicial conduct, and an appeal decision that effectively ignores it in this way is a really bad decision.