Vale and Vale (No 6)

In *Vale and Vale (No 6)*, Hogan J of the Family Court of Australia considered an application by the Respondent seeking the recusal of the trial judge from further conduct of the proceedings. The specific nature of the underlying dispute between the parties, Vale and Vale, is not detailed in the provided text, but the application for recusal formed the central issue before the court.

The sole legal issue before Hogan J was whether the trial judge should be disqualified from continuing to hear the matter due to apprehended bias. This required an assessment of whether a fair-minded and informed observer, having considered the facts, would apprehend that the judge might not bring an impartial mind to the issues before her.

Hogan J dismissed the application for recusal. The reasoning applied by the court, though not elaborated upon in the provided text, would have involved a careful consideration of the evidence presented in support of the recusal application against the established legal principles governing apprehended bias in judicial proceedings. The court must have concluded that the threshold for apprehended bias was not met.

Consequently, the application by the Respondent that the trial Judge recuse herself from further conduct of the trial was dismissed.