D v D

Nicholas Francis QC and Nicholas Bennett (instructed by Pannone) for the Applicant Ann Hussey QC (instructed by Jones Myers LLP) for the Respondent husband Hearing dates: 11 and 14 to 17 December 2009 Draft circulated 2 February 2010 ____________________

i) The husband's Great Grandfather and Grandfather purchased a farm, GE Farm, of which they had been the tenants. They traded in partnership and this farm is now owned by the Company.

ii) The husband's father joined his father and grandfather in their farming business at GE Farm. (I do not know when the husband's uncle joined and left, but this does not matter).

iii) In 1947, the husband's grandfather acquired a tenancy of WE Farm for growing fruit and the family farming business started one of the first "Pick Your Own" fruit enterprises in the area at that farm.

iv) In 1951, the husband's father went to America on a Nuffield farming scholarship and studied the growing of vegetables. He was there for under a year but acquired useful knowledge and experience from more advanced and different methods that were used in America (in this context broccoli and rhubarb were specifically mentioned in the evidence).