Agriculture & Rural Affairs
UK Guide 2024 : The South
Band 2
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Warners Solicitors
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Agriculture & Rural Affairs
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Type of work handled
- Non-contentious property work - buying & selling of farms, estates & grouse moors
- Landlord & tenant matters
- Contentious property work - disputes over sporting rights, boundaries and other land disputes as well as public rights of way problems on farms, estates and grouse moors
- Criminal and regulatory work affecting farms and estates including defence work over wildlife, farming, shooting and hunting related investigations and prosecutions
- Creation and administration of estate trusts for asset protection
- Estate tax planning
Categories of clients
- Country estates and rural landowners
- Stately homes
- Small to medium size farms
- Shoots & hunts
- Equine businesses and horse owners
- Country sports regulatory bodies
Recent work highlights
- Administration of an estate consisting of grassland farm & parcels of land
- Advice for Masters of Foxhounds Association, including disciplinary procedures against hunt officials, employment matters involving hunt staff and health and safety matters
- Advice in relation to the employment of gamekeepers at grouse moors, shooting estates and landed estates
- Defending firearms and shotgun prosecutions
- Defending allegations relating to the illegal trapping and shooting of birds of prey
- Resolving a dispute over sporting rights between a landed estate and neighbouring farmer
- Winning a boundary dispute between neighbouring landowners at binding arbitration
- Advising a hunting regulatory authority in relation to a hunting issue which attracted national press coverage
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