How to be a good dog

摘要

Let me tell you what happens in when i'm the adjudicator and one party is a LIP or a BIP or a SCIP. I treat the Litigant in Person much the same as a Builder in Person and a Subcontract Plasterer in Person. I bite my tongue. But my eyes are wide open. I pause. I take a breath. I remind myself that my job as an adjudicator is to be neutral. True, I am to hold the ring. But I am an impartial ring holder. I repeat several times, "I must be fair". I repeat several times, "I am the referee, the umpire, not a player".