Agriculture
Leathes Prior has a history of advising agricultural clients on a comprehensive range of rural matters for over 130 years. Our agricultural lawyers are experienced in serving both commercial and personal requirements, offering practical advice on a wide range of legal matters to landowners, farming businesses, and individuals.
The LP Agriculture Team understand that navigating the complex landscape of agriculture law requires expertise and a strong understanding of the unique challenges facing farmers, agribusinesses, and rural communities. As a team we have extensive knowledge of the sector and therefore understand the pressures and challenges our clients face.
At Leathes Prior, we understand the vital role that agriculture plays in our society & contributes to the local community, our commitment is to provide practical, professional and personal legal advice to landowners, farming businesses, landed estates, institutions and others with interests in land and the wider rural economy.
In addition to the specialist services we offer, by collaborating with teams across the firm we offer a comprehensive range of legal services from an agricultural stand point to clients, tailoring a number of services specifically to the needs of those within the rural & agricultural communities.
Our team provides expert transactional support on all agricultural property, including sales and purchase, refinance & complex first registrations of farmland & agricultural property, leasing, financing and acting for landowners on rights of way and easements.
We also offer targeted environmental support to our agricultural clients, whose compliance requirements are only increasing.
Our team is able to deal with a full range of matters including farm inheritance disputes, tenancy disputes, rights of way, boundaries, shareholder disputes, nuisance claims and debt recovery.
We are proud to act for farmers, farming businesses and landowners across Norfolk and surrounding areas. Our experience lies in our ability to identify and understand our client’s individual needs, manage challenging family situations and provide a holistic advice and service that is required within the context of complexities that often arise within the sector.
Whether advice is required on succession planning, effective Inheritance Tax planning and taxation in general, Wills and Trusts or wealth preservation, the team has the requisite expertise to meet all challenges faced by clients that are operating within the agricultural sphere.
Our Corporate Team works in close collaboration with our commercial property colleagues, advising farming, agricultural and land-owning clients across Norfolk and the rest of the UK.
We can assist with farming partnership agreements, asset acquisitions and sales, supply agreements, finance agreements (including loans and refinancing) and a further array of commercial advice to assist you with your agricultural business.
Our Family Team specialise in assisting farmers/land owners or the spouses of farmers/land owners with family matters including divorce, financial settlements and Prenuptial agreements.
We act for many clients in the agriculture sector in all areas of employment law, including preparing bespoke employment contracts and policies tailored to the unique needs in this arena; managing staff; advising on employment disputes, termination and recruitment; acting in employment tribunal litigation and immigration assistance.
With our comprehensive understanding of the sector, we swiftly navigate complex workplace matters to ensure, where possible, a swift, practical resolution is reached. Our experience in the sector means our solicitors give relevant, specialist, practical and up to the minute advice on situations in your business as they develop.
Our Regulatory and Criminal Defence Team provides advice and representation to businesses and individuals operating in the agricultural sector, for example those facing HSE, Trading Standards, DVSA, Police, HMRC, GLAA and Environment Agency investigations and prosecutions, or Coroner’s Investigations and Inquests in the event of fatalities.
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What our clients say
Many thanks for this Alison and huge thanks to you personally for all your help and Leathes Prior, we are thrilled with the service/representation we received and would highly recommend Leathes Prior to others.
I was able to authorise Leathes Prior to undertake the sale of two agricultural fields let out to tenants, and Alison has been able to complete the sale of both fields without any fuss. She has been totally professional, liaising with the tenants’ solicitors (as well as my mother’s solicitor) and managed to streamline the process. I should also add that Alison had a very positive style of dealing with me as a client, and it gave me confidence that the work was being completed (unlike the firm that had been dealing with it). This is the third estate that I have had to deal with as an executor in the last five years, and I have been so impressed with the high-quality service provided by Leathes Prior.
I was able to authorise Leathes Prior to undertake this part of the work (the sale of two agricultural fields let out to tenants), and Alison has been able to complete the sale of both fields without any fuss. She has been totally professional, liaising with the tenants' solicitors (as well as my mother's solicitor) and managed to streamline the process. I should also add that Alison had a very positive style of dealing with me as a client, and it gave me confidence that the work was being completed (unlike the firm that had been dealing with it). This is the third estate that I have had to deal with as an executor in the last five years, and I have been so impressed with the high-quality service provided by Leathes Prior.
Leathes Prior’s Darren Bowen advises agricultural clients. Mike Barlow advised on a dispute concerning farming equipment installation.
Leathes Prior’s specialist team compares very well with the main competition in Norfolk. Litigator Darren Bowen is incisive, clear-thinking and a strong advocate for his clients, but always open to practical ideas for settlement.
Darren Bowen has a broad practice covering contentious probates, agricultural disputes and real estate litigation. He is an expert in litigation. He is very good at bringing in the right experts and specialists for different jobs, he displays great customer care and is very tenacious.
In Darren Bowen the firm has a highly skilled property litigator who is respected by surveyors, land agents, landed estates and counsel, and whose expertise covers agricultural property disputes, particularly those involving probate matters.
Leathes Prior provide advice on all aspects of contentious property issues, including commercial, agricultural and residential landlord and tenant, boundary and development litigation. Particularly pronounced expertise in timeshare disputes, patient and measured in assisting with a long-running matter. They respond promptly and efficiently.
Attention to detail and recommended for Commercial Litigation and Agriculture and Estates work, for their confident and pragmatic approach.
Thank you so much for the update and good news! I am so grateful for all your hard work and persistence, and a brilliant outcome.
May I take this opportunity of thanking you both most sincerely for your help and assistance in concluding these arrangements. I appreciate that this has been a very long ongoing sale process, however it has been a pleasure to work with you both on this project and seeing the arrangements concluded.
Thanks to our outstanding legal team, headed by Darren Bowen a Partner in Leathes Prior’s Dispute Resolution and Agricultural Teams we can now start trading again.
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