I’m an Associate in Michelmores’ Contentious Ariculture team.
I have a breadth of litigation experience, including property disputes, agricultural and general landlord and tenant disputes, professional negligence, commercial/contract disputes (in an agricultural context), milk contract disputes, right of way disputes, manorial rights, compulsory purchase, boundary disputes, proprietary estoppel and other “non-contentious” drafting/advisory work.
I advise and work closely with a wide range of clients across the country, including tenant farmers, landowners, high net worth individuals, partnerships, companies and landed estates. I thrive on developing and maintaining relationships with both existing and new clients and very much enjoy getting involved in the highly interesting and innovative work taking place in the industry today.
As well as acting on complex contentious agricultural matters, I am also a member of the Firm’s Sustainable Agriculture practice. I have previous experience of advising on the regulatory sphere surrounding the use of insects as food and feed. I also have a further keen interest in topics such as gene-editing, vertical farming and agri-tech.
I’ve been a part of the Agricultural Litigation team at Michelmores since qualifying with the Firm in 2018.
Expertise
Recent experience
Advising on the regulatory sphere surrounding the use of insects as food and feed. In particular, I was part of the Michelmores’ team who contributed to the UK’s first report on the future of insect protein in pig, poultry and aquaculture feed produced by WWF and Tesco
Acting on a complex, high value proprietary estoppel claim in the Court of Appeal
Advising a number of farmers on a complex and high value litigation concerning contamination to land
Supporting a large landed estate on various complex matters; including right of way disputes, various environmental and regulatory matters, landlord and tenant matters, contamination issues and others
Acting for landowner clients in a professional negligence claim against another firm of solicitors and negotiating a settlement in respect of the same
Acting on a complex commercial dispute regarding milk contracts which involved various elements including contractual matters, insolvency proceedings, an injunction application and landlord and tenant matters (amongst other matters)
