Agriculture
Introduction
Ashfords' team consists of property lawyers and litigators with extensive experience of agricultural issues and the specialist knowledge to provide expert advice. Our lawyers are actively involved in organisations such as the NFU, CLA and the Agricultural Law Association and clients include farmers, contractors, agricultural supply companies, landowners, tenants, share farmers, farming companies.
Work handled includes
- Farming Contract disputes
- Farming Partnerships
- Agricultural Tenancies
- Notices to Quit
- Succession
- Agricultural Land Tribunal
- Arbitrations
- Quota and Single Payment Issues
- Animal Health
- Contract Farming
- Share Farming
- Farm Sales and Purchases
- Prosecutions / Defence
- Boundary, Covenant and Easement Issues
Recent work undertaken includes:
- Partnership dissolution
- Tenancy succession advice
- Bovine TB issues
What others say about us
"Tim Howells is a property litigator of note, with a concentration on easements and restrictive covenants. His strength lies in taking a "measured, rational view on litigation" and being a "calming influence on excitable factions."
Chambers Guide to the Legal Profession, 2008 Edition
"Solution seeker" Tim Howells is rated by peers as "a proper operator in the sector" who is "very relaxed and usually right."
Chambers Guide to the Legal Profession, 2007 Edition
Clients concur that the lawyers show "considerable personal experience of agricultural tenancy law and dealing with the general running of landed estates."
Chambers Guide to the Legal Profession, 2008 Edition
"A very helpful and responsive team"
Chambers 2004 Edition
