Agriculture & Rural Affairs - South West
Band 2
What the Team is Known For
Loxley is a specialist firm that is highly praised for its dedication to agricultural matters. It offers expertise in rural issues for clients, including landed estates, agricultural landlords and tenants and farming businesses. The firm is known for handling matters affecting rural property owners and farmers, including litigation. It has further expertise in animal welfare and sporting rights.
Strengths
Loxley are true agriculture specialists.
Notable practitioners
Andrew Baskerville leads the property sales and purchases practice at Loxley and specialises in rural property transactions. He also handles deals relating to development property.
Fred Harrison-James is a litigation partner, specialising in property disputes concerning rural land. He handles contentious agricultural landlord and tenant matters, contested probates and farm partnership disputes, among other matters, and also advises farming businesses on regulatory issues.
Judith Bell is an expert on rural property and agricultural tenancy matters, including telecommunications, minerals and utilities issues. She also handles farming partnership disputes.
Pierre Bell specialises in rural property transactions. He advises on the sale, purchase and refinance of farms, estates and country homes.
Simon Leach tackles agricultural tenancy matters for landowner and tenant farmer clients. He also handles disputes relating to farm partnerships.