Law of Civil Procedure

A judge shall be barred from considering and hearing a case in the following cases, even without a petition by any of the litigants: a)If he is the husband, relative or in-law up to the fourth degree of a litigant. b)If he or his wife has an existing dispute with a litigant in the case or with the wife of a litigant. c)If he is an agent, guardian, trustee, or a potential heir of a litigant or if he is the husband of the guardian or trustee of a litigant or if he is a relative or an in-law up to the fourth degree of such guardian or trustee. d)If he, his wife, a relative thereof, an in-law in the ancestral line or a person for whom he is an agent or guardian, has an interest in the case. e)If he had provided a fatwa (religious legal opinion) or published his opinion on the subject of the case, or litigated on behalf of one of the litigants in the case, even if it were before he joined the judiciary, or if he had earlier considered the case as a judge, expert or arbitrator or had been a witness in the case or had engaged in any investigative action therein.