Letters to The Editor — April 30, 2026

Recusal test

The proceeding successful the liquor lawsuit is an absorbing lawsuit of prejudice versus process (Editorial page, April 29). Although determination is nary instrumentality explicitly defining the recusal of a justice successful a case, it lies wrong the judge’s discretion to recuse themselves successful the involvement of disposable fairness and the principles of earthy justice, notably nemo judex successful causa sua (Latin), which means that a justice should not adjudicate a lawsuit successful which determination is simply a tenable apprehension of bias. In Ranjit Thakur vs Union of India (1987), the Supreme Court held that the contented is not whether a justice is really biased, but whether a enactment has a tenable apprehension of bias. A important fig of precedents enactment this principle.