Our award-winning agricultural and rural affairs division is nationally recognised and is uniquely placed to advise clients across the West Midlands, including in Worcestershire, Herefordshire and Shropshire. Led by experienced partner Iain Morrison, our knowledge and grasp of all farming and rural matters ensures that we provide strategic legal advice for all aspects of rural life including advice to farmers and landowners on areas such as:
Agricultural tenancies
Buying and selling agricultural property
Development schemes and business diversification
Renewable energy
Boundary disputes
Succession, inheritance and tax planning
Public rights of way, and
Field sports
Aside from providing advice and supporting clients, our rural team are also in demand as regular speakers on farming-related issues and host a series of popular annual seminars in partnership with the CLA, the membership body in England and Wales for landowners and rural business owners.
Our advice to the rural community also extends to the media with our team providing regular commentaries and thought leadership articles to the national farming magazines, rural-related websites and in the local and regional press.
Able to bring together experts from across the firm, we also offer a specialist service for businesses within food and drink industry, helping them to tackle regulations, health and safety approaches, complex supply and distribution agreements, sales and acquisitions, exporting, employment legislation and tax considerations. Our growing number of food and drink clients range from growers and food packaging firms, to Michelin star restaurants and family-owned hotels.
As a law firm with its roots steeped in Herefordshire and Worcestershire, we are proud to be involved in the first ever Three Counties Farmer Farming Awards. Awards always provide a platform to showcase all that is good about an industry and these awards will shine a light on the success, effort and innovation which is spread across the region’s farming and rural sector.
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