What is the test for recusal from a hearing?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Emergency and Health Services Commission (British Columbia Ambulance Service) v. Ambulance Paramedics of British Columbia (CUPE, Local 873), 2009 CanLII 60733 (BC LRB):
10 Goepel J. went on to quote Groberman J. (as he then was) in De Cotiis v. De Cotiis, 2004 BCSC 117, where he stated at paragraph 11: ...it is my duty to determine whether or not I ought to recuse myself, not by simply agreeing to refrain from hearing the matter because an objection is raised, but by reference to established legal principles.
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