Judges may have ‘blind spot’ when hearing applications for their own recusal, ALRC told
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The Australian Law Reform Commission has suggested judges should transfer applications for their own disqualification to a separate duty judge to decide, after hearing concerns about how the “bias blind spot” may operate in the existing self-disqualification procedure.

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