Cripps Harries Hall

Expertise

• Agricultural land sales/purchases
• Agricultural tenancies

Memberships

• Agricultural Law Association

Career

• Partner, Cripps Harries Hall LLP, 2006
• Associate, Cripps Harries Hall LLP, 2004
• Solicitor, Cripps Harries Hall LLP, 2000
• Trainee Solicitor, Cripps Harries Hall LLP, 1998

• Acting on the sale of a country estate for just under £4 million. Involving the unravelling of a share farming arrangement and strategic advice on the best way to deal with the incumbent tenant farmer.
• Acting on the purchase of a substantial country estate in Surrey for £6 million. Although the estate had originally been in one ownership it had been split over the years and to amalgamate it back meant considering and fitting together sixteen separate Land Registry titles.
• Acting on the sale of a significant farming estate in East Sussex for £3.5 million. The estate itself was split into lots although ultimately the same buyer bought the whole. There were employment issues to consider as well as splitting entitlements as the seller was retaining land in the area.
• Acting for two charities in connection with the sale of an estate in East Sussex. This involved regularising the access and rights to use service media as well as dealing with the existing agricultural tenant. The sale involved a very tight timescale and was complicated as ultimately the estate was split into lots.
• Acting on the purchase of a substantial area of farm land for clients who were occupying the adjoining residential properties. This involved planning issues, the grant of option agreements and development uplift provisions.
• Acting on the purchase of a listed property at Maidstone for £4 million which involved a complex unregistered title and listed building issues.