Farm business consultant with over 26 years' experience of a wide range of farming systems from livestock to intensive vegetable & potato production • Provided a range of expert witness & insurance reports including: • Review of fencing & farming practice in relation to straying livestock • Review of suitability of livestock handling & broader facilities following injury to farm workers • Appeared in Scottish Land Court as an expert witness in the Morrison Lowe -v- Paterson rent review case

• Litigation disputes relating to rights of way, access and wayleave agreements, covenants, uplift agreements. • State involvement and direction of agriculture: the impact of food production campaigns of the first and second world wars; agri-environment schemes. • Historical research • The impact of Enclosure • Changes in land ownership • The National Farm Survey 1941-43. • Tenancy and access agreements: sporting rights, tenancy and access agreements, agri-environmental schemes. • Management and access agreements...

Rural Practice Chartered Surveyor with considerable expert witness & litigation experience, including: • Arbitration & Higher Tier Tribunals • Banking & other business & property disputes • Farm business advice, including finance & business restructuring • Agricultural insolvency & receivership • Planning & development • Agricultural tenancies, including as an adviser to Defra as a member of the Farm Tenancy Forum • Chairs the RICS Agricultural Tenancies Monitoring Group • Valuation • Boundaries • Experience includes county...