Remember the fiasco in the UK when a Lord of Appeal hearing the Pinochet
case omitted to declare his association with a charity connected with
Amnesty International, which had been permitted to intervene in the
proceedings to make representations in favour of extradition? The House of
Lords ruling, to which Lord Hoffmann was a party, had to be rescinded and
the whole thing gone through again with a differently constituted House.
(The second time around they again ruled in favour of extradition but on
narrower grounds).

Surely on this principle all nine members of the Supreme Court in Gore v
Bush should have recused themselves?

Richard Edwards
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