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

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

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court for the First Department unanimously affirmed Cohen’s decision in October 2020, ruling the Orioles failed to establish evident partiality in the second arbitration panel.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 1, 2023

“There is no one above the law,” Maung Maung Ohn said, adding that Myanmar's judicial system "has no partiality".

From Reuters • Dec. 7, 2021

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