32. Direct personal interest and apparent bias.
B. The Rule Against Bias
It is a fundamental rule, often expressed in the maxim nemo judex in causa sua, that, in the absence of statutory authority, agreement or necessity, no person may be a judge in his or her own cause1.
At common law this rule is
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