SB wrote:

Before yesterday's case got under way, the judge declared she was a
member of the RSPB and the Council For The Protection Of Rural England
and a benefactor of the National Trust but she said she felt it did
not disqualify her from hearing the case.

It would probably be quite hard to find a judge who isn't a member of
at least one of the organisations named.

Colin McKenzie

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