A judge may be disqualified on any of the following grounds: 1.If he or his wife has a legal proceeding similar to the legal proceeding brought before him, or if he or his wife has a legal proceeding against either litigant or his / her spouse after the original legal proceeding brought before him has been instituted, unless that latter legal proceeding has been instituted with the sole aim of disqualifying the judge from hearing the original legal proceeding; 2.If his divorcee with whom he has a child, or any of his relatives or in-laws in the ancestral line, has a pending legal proceeding against either litigant or his / her spouse, unless that latter legal proceeding has been instituted with the sole aim of disqualifying the judge from hearing the original legal proceeding; 3.If either litigant has worked as a servant of the judge, if the judge has habitually been dining or cohabitating with either litigant, or if he has received a gift from either litigant before or after the legal proceeding is instituted; 4.If a state of bad blood or friendship exists between him and either litigant, such that it is likely that he would not be able to adjudicate impartially; or 5.If either litigant has chosen him as an arbitrator in a former legal proceeding.
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