Farming Law Blog

Although farming families are often close-knit, the long-hours and pressures of running a business can take their toll, leading to relationship breakdown and divorce. The often complex nature of farming partnerships, land holdings and other business assets...

Jenni Bartram joins Harrowells Solicitors

• Posted2020-02-03 00:00
• AuthorPeter Mills

One of Yorkshire’s best-known agricultural solicitors has joined Harrowells Solicitors. Jenni Bartram, a long-standing member of the Agricultural Law Association and former president of the Yorkshire Law Society, joined Harrowells in February...

Agriculture Update

• Posted2019-09-30 00:00
• AuthorPaul Burkinshaw

Agricultural Tenancy Reform We have been involved in a consultation with DEFRA in relation to a possible agricultural tenancy reform. The government has confirmed that it expects to publish its response to the consultation “later this year”....

The Agricultural Bill

• Posted2019-09-19 00:00
• AuthorPaul Burkinshaw

It was announced that the Agricultural Bill was not scheduled to be debated during the final session of Parliament which had commenced on 9th September 2019. As everybody is now aware Parliament is currently prorogued until 14th October 2019....

How buying rural land can throw up legal complexities for the unwary

• Posted2019-07-09 00:00
• AuthorStephen Proctor

One of my recent cases threw up a multitude of legal issues in a single project. A long-standing farming client was buying 40 acres of ancient woodland dating from the 17th century and wanted to set up a shoot. This sounds straightforward, how complicated...