Roythornes Solicitors

Roythornes is one of the top agricultural law practices in the country. We have an excellent understanding of the farming industry and the pressures our clients have to contend with.

Our Agriculture team has a national reputation and is highlighted in leading legal directories including The Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners. 

We offer the agricultural sector and landed estates an across-the-board service, but what makes us stand out as agricultural experts is that we are up to speed on specialist areas, including natural capital contracts, water and flood management, share farming, poultry production agreements and farmer-led cooperatives. 

• Farm business tenancies
• Agricultural Holdings Act successions and tribunal applications
• Land sales, purchases and bank re-financing
• Landed estates
• Tax, trusts and succession planning for families and estates
• Wills and probate
• Farming partnerships
• Pre-nuptial agreements and farming divorces
• Proprietary estoppel
• Agricultural supply contracts
• Agri-tech project advice
• Joint ventures, mergers, de-mergers and farm business structures
• Contract farming and share farming
• Seasonal and specialist cropping arrangements
• Poultry
• Producer organisations and marketing co-operatives
• Renewable energy projects and battery storage
• Planning, diversification and development
• Natural capital opportunities
• Biodiversity net gain and habitat banks
• Conservation covenants
• Water and flood management
• Environmental land management schemes
• Employment, foreign and 'gang' labour
• Sporting, fishing and shooting rights
• Rights of way and boundary disputes
• Common land
• Mines and minerals
• Environmental law and food law
• Prosecutions by Trading Standards, the HSE, the Environment Agency and the FSA
• Health & Safety
• Animal welfare
• Equine law
• Agricultural disputes
• Assured shorthold tenancies and Rent (Agricultural Act) tenancies