A judge's spouse being employed as an administrative public servant involved in the procurement of ad hoc legal services for a party does not, without more, give rise to apprehended bias where the spouse has no substantive decision-making authority, no interest in the outcome, and the role is confined to facilitating compliance with procurement processes. The necessity to construe a document authored by a judge's spouse is not equivalent to the spouse being called as a witness for the purposes of the Guide to Judicial Conduct.
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