Fairness or objectivity may be compromised, or be seen to be compromised, if academic evaluation is conducted, even in part, by someone with whom there is a close personal tie (for example, family member, partner in an intimate relationship, or housemate). Where such a tie exists between student and evaluator, the parties involved have a responsibility to declare a potential conflict of interest, normally to the Department/Program Head or Dean, who shall assist, without prejudice, in arranging evaluation by alternative means. (For the purposes of this regulation, evaluators are understood to include professors, supervisors, lecturers, tutors, markers, teaching assistants, lab demonstrators, and members of thesis or comprehensive examination committees.)