A judge's prior membership of the Legal Profession Complaints Committee, which ceased upon appointment to the bench, does not give rise to a reasonable apprehension of bias in proceedings involving the Committee, where there is no challenge to the propriety of Committee members or officers, no relevant prior dealings, and no logical connection between the past association and any feared deviation from impartial decision-making. This is consistent with a long line of Western Australian authority.
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