1A member of the High Judicial Council may not participate in the meetings of the committees or plenary meeting of the Council considering disciplinary proceedings against a judge, in the decision-making on the promotion, transfer and secondment of a judge and neither be a rapporteur for professional and moral assessment of a judge as well as in any other administrative proceedings related to the status of the judge or other functionaries of the judicial system whose status is administered by the Council, it the following relationship exists between them:
aMarital or cohabitation relationships;
bClose kinship relationship including ancestors, descendants, brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts, nephews, nieces, children of brothers and sisters;
cClose relations by marriage including father-in-law, mother-in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, brother-in –law, sister-in-law, stepson, and stepfather.
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