25That reasoning applies with the same force in a situation such as that of the legal advisers in issue in the present dispute, in which the lawyers are employed by an entity connected to the party they represent. The relationship of employment between the legal advisers and the UKE, even if it is formally separate from the Chairman of the UKE, is liable to affect their independence since the interests of the UKE are largely the same as those of its Chairman. There is a risk that the professional opinion of those advisers would be, at least partly, influenced by their working environment.
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