Gerder & Anor and Lambourgh

In *Gerder & Anor and Lambourgh*, heard before Watts J, the father sought leave to make an oral application to vacate a hearing scheduled to commence on 31 January 2011 and to run for five days before Stevenson J. The application was opposed by the mother.

The central legal issue before Watts J was whether to grant the father leave to make an oral application to vacate the existing hearing date. This required consideration of the circumstances presented by the father and whether they justified disrupting the court's already scheduled proceedings.

Watts J dismissed the father's oral application. While the specific reasons for dismissal are not detailed in the provided text, the decision indicates that the threshold for granting such an application was not met. The court ultimately upheld the original hearing date.