He alleged that legislation is discriminatory because it allows a judge to disqualify himself when the lawyer is a member of his family but does not oblige the judge to disqualify himself when he is hostile towards one of the lawyers, nor in this last case does it enable the lawyer to request that the hostile judge be removed from the case.

The winning bidder, however, has the right to refuse lowering the price submitted in the ERA and the auctioneer is not allowed to disqualify the bidder for that reason.

Consequently, the Electoral Complaints Commission drew upon the substantial body of information accumulated by national and international institutions since 2001 to disqualify provisionally the 208 candidates reported to have links with illegal armed groups.

He urged the Special Committee to deal with the question of Gibraltar as a case of decolonization by self determination and not to disqualify itself from action by virtue of the mere existence of a sovereignty dispute.

Bédié founded his power on the country s Catholics and his government on tribal membership. And he invented a legitimizing concept of Ivorian identity (Ivoirité), which was largely meant to disqualify northern Muslims as foreigners, because their tribes extended into Mali and Burkina Faso.

This mismanagement should disqualify any eurozone policymaker from the IMF s managing directorship, and yet Christine Lagarde, French finance minister, was named to succeed her compatriot Dominique Strauss Kahn after his resignation. Who would seriously have suggested a Russian to lead the IMF after its financial crash in 1998, or an Argentine after its default in 2001?

The Presiding Officer, at the request of either party, may disqualify the chairperson or any member from the consideration of a specific case if in the opinion of the Presiding Officer the action is warranted by the relation of that member to the staff member whose case is to be considered or by any possible conflict of interest.

It has been roughly 300 years since religious people came to understand that being of a different faith, or being agnostic, did not disqualify one from public office. If the moral test that I endured stands, it means that Europe has come full circle agnostics are no longer willing to accept that being religious and having different moral views should not bar someone from holding an official post.