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1 before 6th March that there will be any gap, possibly the
2 Friday, but it is unlikely there will be much of a gap
3 before Mr. Bowes. We have allowed three days, as your
4 Lordship will see, for Dr. Pattison.
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6 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Let me just ask about that. Mr. Pattison of
7 Sun Valley is a group technical manager of that firm. He
8 also is professionally qualified as a veterinary surgeon.
9 How long do you think he will take?
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11 MS. STEEL: I think it would be prudent to keep the 17th clear.
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13 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I will pencil him in for that Friday as
14 well. I know there have been many references to him. As
15 Sun Valley, you may well see him as an important witness,
16 but I think you ought to be able to clear his evidence
17 completely in three days. Then we come to the week
18 beginning Monday 20th. In fact, I am receptive to you
19 having a substantial part of that week off for your
20 domestic purposes. You were able on the last occasion to
21 make some arrangement, was it, for one day or two days in
22 the week?
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24 MR. MORRIS: It was at least one day, I cannot remember.
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26 MR. JUSTICE BELL: You need not worry about the half term in
27 June because that coincides precisely with the short
28 vacation between. They are virtually two half terms. You
29 have seven weeks after Easter, the week off which is the
30 Whit week, and then normally eight weeks on until the end
31 of term, so that coincides.
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33 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, the vacation is 27th May until 5th June
34 which includes the period that Mr. Morris wanted. As to
35 the April application which he makes, the vacation is 13th
36 to 24th. He asked for 8th to 23rd and the vacation is 13th
37 to the 24th.
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39 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Apart from Monday 20th to Friday 24th
40 February, the clashes with school holidays, or rather with
41 school term time -----
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43 MR. RAMPTON: Five days in April.
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45 MR. JUSTICE BELL: --- our term time, are Monday 10th, Tuesday
46 11th and Wednesday 12th April which are the last three days
47 of this legal term, but the first three days of your son's
48 school Easter holiday. The 29th May to 2nd June is what
49 lawyers call the Spring vacation and that is your boy's
50 Summer half term. The clash at the end of July, because
51 his last day at school is Friday 22nd July, is Monday 24th
52 July to Friday 28th July, the legal term, and Monday 31st
53 July which is the last day of the legal term. I am not
54 prepared at this stage to say anything about 10th to 12th
55 April or those days towards the end of July. We will have
56 to think about them when we get nearer to them.
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58 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, one possibility that occurs to
59 Mrs. Brinley-Codd is that if Mr. Morris were to have some,
60 but not all, of the week -- I say if your Lordship were not
