Our Farming, Estates and Rural Affairs team draws together specialists who cover the key legal areas that relate to estate and land management, farm business management and rural life.
The team draws on a significant body of practical experience in agriculture and land management, having members who have been working farmers, served on boards of farming and countryside bodies and taken an active interest in country pursuits. This means our Farming, Estates and Rural Affairs team will engage with clients from a place of empathy and help find your practical solutions.
The broad range of expertise we cover includes:
- Landlord and tenant
- Trespass to land
- AHA and Farm Business Tenancies
- Partnership contracts, farm contracts and share-farming agreements
- Grazing licences/profit a prendre/rights of common
- Estate succession issues
- Trusts of land
- Boundary/Easement disputes
- Riparian/sporting rights
- Adverse possession
- Environmental issues (including pollution and fly-tipping)
- Asset finance/credit agreements
- Insolvency
We act for a broad range of clients including:
- Estate and land owners
- Estate managers and consultants
- Farmers (in some cases on a direct access basis)
- Co-operatives and farmer representative groups
- Agri-businesses