partiality

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For that reason, they are expected to avoid public statements displaying partiality because such statements undermine public trust in the legal system.

From Salon • Jun. 5, 2025

Ms. Soderstrom faced removal from the bench for gross neglect of duty, gross partiality in office and other judicial conduct prohibited by the state’s Constitution.

From New York Times • Feb. 10, 2024

Thus, judicial remarks during the course of a trial that are critical or disapproving of, or even hostile to, counsel, the parties, or their cases, ordinarily do not support a bias or partiality challenge.

From Slate • Sep. 13, 2023

Also on Friday, Jones' attorney asked Bellis to substantially reduce the verdict, saying it was "exorbitant, shocks the sense of justice and was influenced by partiality and prejudice."

From Reuters • Oct. 22, 2022

All John Reed’s violent tyrannies, all his sisters’ proud indifference, all his mother’s aversion, all the servants’ partiality, turned up in my disturbed mind like a dark deposit in a turbid well.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë