Article 707 Bis Federal Labor Law

Judges and instructing secretaries shall be deemed forcibly impeded and shall have the duty to excuse themselves from hearing matters in the following cases:

I.In matters in which they have a direct or indirect interest;

II.In matters that interest their spouse, concubine, or their blood relatives in the direct line without limitation of degrees, the collaterals within the fourth degree, and the relatives by affinity within the second;

III.If between the official, his spouse, concubine, or his children and any of the interested parties, there is a relationship of intimacy born of some civil or religious act;

IV.If he is a relative by consanguinity or affinity of the attorney or agent of any of the parties, within the same degrees referred to in section II of this article;

V.When he, his spouse or any of his children is heir, legatee, donor, donee, partner, creditor, debtor, guarantor, guaranteed party, lessor, lessee, principal, dependent or habitual commensal of any of the parties, or current administrator of their property;

VI.If he has made promises or threats, or has otherwise manifested his hatred or affection for any of the parties;

VII.If he attends or has attended banquets given or paid for especially for him by any of the parties, after the proceeding has begun, or if he has great familiarity with any of them, or lives with him, in his company, or in the same house;

VIII.When after the proceeding has begun, he, his spouse or any of his children has accepted gifts or services from any of the parties;

IX.If he has been an attorney or agent, expert or witness in the matter in question;

X.If he has heard the matter as a member of the Court, arbitrator or advisor, resolving any point that affects the substance of the question, in the same instance or in another;

XI.When he, his spouse or any of his blood relatives in the direct line, without limitation of degrees, of the collaterals within the second, or of the relatives by affinity in the first, is pursuing against any of the parties, or one year has not passed since having pursued a civil suit, or a criminal cause, as accuser, complainant or informant, or has become a civil party in a criminal cause pursued against any of them;

XII.When any of the parties or their attorneys is or has been informant, complainant or accuser of the official in question, of his spouse, or of any of his aforementioned relatives or has become a civil party in a criminal cause pursued against any of them, provided that the Public Prosecutor's Office (Ministerio Público) has exercised the criminal action;

XIII.When the official in question, his spouse or any of his aforementioned relatives is opposed to any of the parties in an administrative matter that affects their interests;

XIV.If he, his spouse or any of his relatives is party to any civil or criminal proceeding in which the Court, agent of the Public Prosecutor's Office (Ministerio Público), arbitrator or arbiter, is a member, as to any of the parties;

XV.If he is guardian or curator of any of the interested parties, or three years have not passed since he was;

XVI.When he has expressed his opinion publicly before the ruling, and

XVII.Any other legal impediment exists.