Key legal question
Whether the instructing judge had to be recused for lack of impartiality
Extracted holding
No. Rejecting legal aid or managing the file did not, on these facts, create an appearance of bias.
Extracted reasoning
A judge is not biased merely because he refused legal aid for lack of success. Here, the instructing judge did not rule on success prospects but only on provisional legal aid and procedural steps, which did not show prejudice.