Agriculture

DTM Legal has a wealth of experience across all farming and agricultural matters and our experts provide a full legal service for farming and estates clients.

Our knowledge and highly effective team includes specialists in:

• Security of tenure of agricultural tenants, including notices to quit and succession
• Rent reviews
• Breach of covenant
• Forfeiture
• Mortgages, charges and charging orders
• Milk quota
• Proprietary estoppel claims
• Agricultural partnerships and their dissolution
• Trusts of land
• Boundary disputes
• Restrictive covenants and rights of way
• Overage
• Promotion agreements
• Easements and profits
• Professional negligence
• Sales and purchase and development

Whether you need legal advice on a professional or a personal level, you can rest assured our team has first hand knowledge of the day-day issues faced by landowner and farmers today, including an up-to-date understanding of the frequently changing legislation.

With activities in the countryside becoming increasingly diverse and regulated, we are well equipped to deal with the many factors that affect those who live and work on the land. We’ve advised several generations of farmers and landowners on many issues, from sales and purchases of agricultural land and property, to agricultural tenancies, tax planning, tribunal and arbitrations and general rural property issues.