Experience has shown that Lord Templeman was being over¬optimistic when he said, in the Spiliada case, at p 465, that in disputes about c the appropriate forum the court would not be referred to other decisions on other facts, and that submissions would be measured in hours and not days. But this case has been excessively complicated by any standards The hearings before the deemster and the Staff of Government Division each lasted for four days or more. The hearing before the Board lasted four days. The written cases of the parties exceeded zoo pages, and more than 30 volumes of documents were placed before the Board, containing almost H 14,000 pages, as well as 170 authorities in iz volumes. The core bundle alone consisted of six volumes. The list of “essential” pre-reading for the Board listed documents totalling some 700 pages. All of this was wholly disproportionate to the issues of law and fact raised by the parties.