When a bench officer issued an order for a fee under review was not the same bench officer as the judge who presided over the trial, can the court exercise a less deferential standard of review?

^4. The bench officer who issued the fee award was not the same bench officer who presided over the trial. Plaintiffs argue that "when, as here, the fee order under review was rendered by a judge other than the trial judge, we may exercise ' "somewhat more latitude in determining whether there has been an abuse of discretion than would be true in the usual case." ' " (Center for Biological Diversity v. County of San Bernardino (2010) 188 Cal.App.4th 603, 616.) A less deferential standard of review would not change our conclusion.