Scotland
Shepherd and Wedderburn LLP
With the Scottish Government's ambition to be "Net Zero" by 2024, it has launched a sequence of land reform and policy changes targeting the rural community.
UK
Higgs LLP
In Savage v Savage [2024] EWCA Civ 49 the Court of Appeal considered the correct interpretation of section 15(3) of ToLATA and whether, when making an order under section 14...
Gatehouse Chambers
Priya Gopal and Jaysen Sharpe discuss key themes in trusts of land disputes and how to maximise your chances of obtaining or opposing an application for an order for sale.
Thomson Snell & Passmore
On 4 January 2024, the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Steve Barclay, announced the biggest upgrade to UK farming schemes since Brexit.
Thomson Snell & Passmore
In short, agroforestry is a land management practice where trees and shrubs are incorporated into farming and agricultural systems.
Shepherd and Wedderburn LLP
Farms run as a family business tend to follow a partnership structure. However there is often a reluctance to commit the terms of the partnership to paper or else to keep...
Thomson Snell & Passmore
The tenant farming community is of huge importance to the farming sector as a whole. Against this backdrop, the Tenancy Working Group...
Shepherd and Wedderburn LLP
With the carbon market beginning to take shape throughout the United Kingdom, we are starting to see tensions emerge around competing priorities for land.
Shepherd and Wedderburn LLP
The weather has certainly not played ball, causing widespread challenges and long delays in harvest being completed. But it's not only the rain and wind causing the storm.
Wright Hassall
The legislation requiring developers to improve the biodiversity of most new developments (there are some exemptions) by a minimum of 10% was due to come into force in November 2023.
Wright Hassall
No farmer needs reminding that their industry is facing one of the most fundamental shifts in decades. As has been widely reported, it is anticipated that the replacement...
Thomson Snell & Passmore
Whilst there is evidence that the Romans introduced viticulture to the UK, the real turning point for English wine was in the 1990s at Nyetimber Vineyard in Sussex, which is now a global...
Myerson Solicitors LLP
It can also be flexible by allowing your Trustees to decide when
and how to distribute assets between your potential beneficiaries
depending on their circumstances.
Gatehouse Chambers
Based on this recent case in which David Peachey successfully acted for the applicant, our panel discuss the impact of nuisance covenants, permitted development and the "thin end of the wedge"...
Michelmores
The idea of escaping from the 'always on' work culture and heading out into the countryside with nothing but a backpack for company has become increasingly popular...
Michelmores
The recent case of Sunset Ltd and Another v Al-Hindi [2023] EWHC 2443 (Ch) serves as a cautionary reminder to landlords (and their agents) that they must comply with s.48 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1987...
Michelmores
Proprietary estoppel is a topic regularly covered [see Proprietary estoppel: How recent cases fit together | Michelmores], Proprietary estoppel: A tale of woe - Michelmores].
Michelmores
Following our article last year on animal liability (see Animal liability: Assessing the risk of cow attacks), and following further cattle trampling incidents in recent years...
Michelmores
In recent months, there have been a few notable announcements from our governments which will impact the agricultural sector and will no doubt continue to keep our Agriculture team busy.
Dixcart Group Limited
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