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The Supreme Court dismissed an appeal from the High Court, and affirmed a decision (on appeal from the Circuit Court) concerning the production of documents, on the grounds that the High Court judge was not disqualified from hearing the case despite the fact that his son worked for one of the firms in the case, on the grounds that the judge's son had no involvement in the litigation, and there was no requirement to disclose the familial relationship.
Objective bias, reasonable apprehension, familial relationship, law firm employment, document production appeal, judicial impartiality, non-disclosure, disqualification, High Court, Supreme Court, legal profession, ethical guidelines, judicial conduct, case law, European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), procedural safeguard, transparency, public confidence in the judiciary.
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