A judge's participation in making rules of court does not necessarily disqualify the judge from considering the validity or application of those rules. A remote institutional affiliation between a judge and a non-party (such as both being associated with the same university faculty without personal acquaintance) is insufficient to meet the first limb of the [name withheld] test. Standard case management directions imposing ordinary procedural requirements on a party do not give rise to apprehended bias.
The full text is available to signed-in members.