Agricultural Disputes

When your land is your business, a disagreement about a boundary or a right of access is never just a technicality. It affects how you farm, and it tends to be with someone you will still be dealing with next season.

Farms carry more property than most businesses ever will, often across several holdings and sometimes as part of a wider estate. That means more boundaries, more access arrangements, more tenancies and more scope for something to go wrong. When it does, the sums involved are usually significant.

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How we can help with agricultural disputes.

Most agricultural disputes are property and land disputes that happen to involve a farm, which is exactly the work our litigation team does day to day.

Boundary disputes

Where the legal boundary actually lies, and what the deeds and plans really show.

Rights of way & access

Disputes over tracks, access to fields and other rights and easements across neighbouring land.

Farm business tenancies

Ending a farm business tenancy, the modern form of agricultural tenancy, and disputes arising during the term.

Partnership disputes

Where a farm is run as a partnership and the partners fall out, whether over money, management or succession.

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We act for farmers, landowners and estates, and for tenants where that is the position you are in. Our aim is always to resolve things sensibly and in proportion to what is at stake, because a dispute that runs on unchecked can cost far more than the land or the access being argued over.

The disputes we handle

Our services cover, but are not limited to:

Boundary disputes

Where the legal boundary actually lies, and what the deeds and plans really show.

Rights of way and access

Disputes over tracks, access to fields and other rights and easements across neighbouring land.

Farm business tenancies

Advice on ending a farm business tenancy, which is the modern form of agricultural tenancy, and on disputes arising during the term.

Partnership disputes

Where a farm is run as a partnership and the partners fall out, whether over money, management or succession.

One firm that already knows your land

Farming families rarely need just one kind of advice. There is often a trust or an estate plan in the background, land being bought or sold, and a dispute running alongside both. Our private client, commercial property and litigation teams all act for farms across Norfolk and Suffolk, so you can keep everything with one firm that already knows your land and your family.

You will find more on our Agricultural Land page for the transactional side, and on our Property Disputes and Landlord & Tenant pages. If something has come up on your land, get in touch and we will give you a straight view of where you stand.