It will be the first major criminal trial in Scottish history without a jury - a move taken to ensure impartiality.
"We follow governmentwide regulations and laws that deter conflicts and ensure impartiality," John Nester, the agency's spokesman, said in an e-mail.
In many countries civil service commissions were set up to ensure impartiality in selection procedures and to lay down broad principles for personnel management in the civil service.
To further ensure impartiality, one vacancy on the commission should open up every two years, with each commissioner serving for a full decade.
Such is the reverence and division that even Egypt's referees aren't beyond suspicion – foreign officials are now flown in to ensure impartiality.
When she was appointed she was told it was an important role – though unpaid to ensure impartiality – and would give her an opportunity to influence policy.
In a remarkable interview on BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Wednesday, the former Labour leader proposed a "balanced press" with a law to ensure impartiality like the one which applies to broadcasters and to prevent concentration of media ownership.
The submission, signed by Clare Spottiswoode, a former head of Ofgas, and Stephen Smith, who was a senior executive at Ofgem as recently as 2010, also urged the CMA to keep Ofgem staff off the investigation team to ensure impartiality.
While it's too earlyfor meaningful results from the drones, Vandyck says Cargill is planning to allow independent third parties to produce publicly-available maps of their plantations to ensure impartiality.
Aaron Pallas, a professor of sociology and education at Teachers College at Columbia University, said it was becoming more common for school districts to include third-party observers in teacher evaluations — not only to ensure impartiality but also to provide a more comprehensive evaluation by consultants with specialized subject knowledge or experience.
