Yet as Tierney himself admitted, he was not impartial.
Even the French encyclopaedist Pierre Larousse was not impartial.
Past elections were organised by the interior ministry which, although technically competent, was not impartial.
The ailing 88-year-old appeared briefly on a trolley, but proceedings stopped when the court accepted the defence's claim that one judge was not impartial.
But in the end, Judge Edelstein was apparently too dogged, and in 1995 a federal appeals court ordered him off the case, saying he was not impartial.
Real Madrid released a statement attacking the article, saying it showed that the federation was not impartial and that it had deliberately conditioned referees against them.
Pellegrini claimed Eriksson was "not impartial to both teams".
And last week, the NFL Players Association called for Casson's removal, claiming he was not impartial enough to be leading these studies.
The government said it had banned her because she was "not impartial and objective while conducting her work".
Many protestors were concerned that Mr McCulloch was not impartial and called for the appointment of a new special prosecutor to replace him.
