This applies to any ethical theory with a strong basis in impartiality or with a claim to universal validity.
This despite the UK's strong controls over the impartiality of news coverage.
The council, which advises the BBC Trust, said BBC Scotland should be given greater authority and resources to commission programmes for Scottish audiences and review its approach to the coverage of controversial political issues "to ensure that perceptions of impartiality remain strong across all audiences".
Ryan Bartlett, the AER's spokesperson, assured me that "the AER's structure is specifically designed to ensure strong corporate oversight and impartiality," because the government has a role in authorizing the AER to collect money from industry.
By presiding over this seminar, Justice Scalia would provide strong reasons to doubt his impartiality when he ruled later on any topic discussed there.
He clearly does play an important part in the history of utilitarianism, not least for his invocation of both British and French writers in the tradition, such as Joseph Priestley and d'Holbach and Helvetius, and for the way that his ethical theory is underpinned by a distinctive rationalist necessarianism on the basis of which he insisted on a strong form of first order impartiality.
He committed himself to public impartiality, despite his strong views on political issues.
Both the Syrian government and Russia, its strongest foreign backer, have called Mr. Brahimi's impartiality into question because the Arab League has officially seated the Syrian opposition coalition as the legitimate representative of Syria.
During the evaluation phase of the study, informants held that there had been an increased awareness of the importance of making stronger efforts to ensure the application of equality and impartiality principles in PS processes.
Is the BBC strong enough to withstand a challenge to its integrity and impartiality?" Lyons said there were "very real suspicions that ministers want to get much closer to the BBC, and that is not in anybody's interests".
