Public service workers must by law be impartial and must not show their religious belief with an outward symbol such as a headscarf, cross or turban.
But, as Charles Geyh, the legal scholar who directed the A.B.A. study, wrote, "It is not enough that judges be impartial; the public must perceive them to be so".
"Since they have no data themselves but are just making judgments based on their expertise, they absolutely must be impartial or it undermines the whole enterprise".
First, the investigation: This is indispensable and it must be impartial, transparent and conform with international standards.
Last June Whittingdale, who has since come out in support of the campaign to leave the EU, wrote to the chair of the BBC Trust saying it must be impartial in covering the referendum and act quickly to tackle complaints about "erroneous views".
That proves I can be impartial, doesn't it?
We must be impartial in thought, as well as action, must put a curb upon our sentiments, as well as upon every transaction that might be construed as a preference of one party to the struggle before another".
In a rare moment of co-operation, Mugabe and Tsvangirai signed a new constitution that stipulated all security forces and government institutions, including state media, must be impartial, and genuine reforms on freedom of speech must be implemented.
If a dispute involves only the conflicting rigs of private litigants, it is elementary that the decision-maker must be impartial and qualified to understand and to apply the controlling rules.
