Senior Associate
Jonathan is an SRA Regulated Senior Associate in the Trusts and Estates Team specialising in agricultural and Rural property work. Jonathan has been qualified for 7 years.
He advises clients on a wide range of private client matters including powers of attorney, deputyship applications, wills, estate administration and trust creation and administration. Jonathan also prepares deeds of variation and declarations of trust in respect of the joint ownership of property. Jonathan also undertakes various agricultural property work.
Jonathan is a Fellow of the Agricultural Law Association and specialises in advising farming and landed individuals in matters of estate planning and estate administration, which often involves Capital Gains Tax and Inheritance Tax considerations and making claims for Agricultural Property Relief and Business Property Relief.
Jonathan also deals with various agricultural property based matters including complex transfers that involve requiring rights to be granted and reserved simultaneously with the transfer, agricultural tenancies under both the old Agricultural Holdings Act 1986 and the Agricultural Tenancies Act 1995, as well as grazing agreements and profits a prendre. The work encompasses most aspects involved with such tenancies but, in particular, the drafting of new leases for both long and short terms, advising on current leases, dealing with notice provisions and the drafting of deeds of surrender. Jonathan also advises clients in respect of deeds of grant, the variation of easements and covenants, shooting leases and large scale first registrations. In respect of transfers of land Jonathan will act for both vendors and purchasers. In the vast majority of cases relating to farm tenancies he acts for landowners, however, he also advises developers on security of tenure issues and notice provisions within tenancies in respect of obtaining vacant possession of land.