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A day in the legal life of a trainee solicitor
Moore Barlow
14.05.2021
Moore Barlow’s Rural Services team is now a leading regional and London team, and we want to hear from trainee candidates interested in a career in agricultural law, so we can bring on the next generation of lawyers in this niche sector. Harry Jones is our first Rural Services trainee. His family trains racehorses, and […]
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Water supply for rural country properties
Rebecca Langmead
13.05.2021
When we buy and sell rural properties on behalf of clients, the topic of water supply frequently crops up – it is, after all, key to most land transactions. However, if you’re a landowner and supplying water privately to other people’s properties, you should ask yourself the following: Do I know where my water is […]
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Working a farm in a shifting environment
Anita Symington
13.05.2021
In November last year – following passing of the Agriculture Act 2020 (discussed in the last edition of Rural News) – Defra published The Path to Sustainable Farming: an Agricultural Transition Plan 2021-2024. This plan is to reduce and then stop direct payments between 2021 and 2024 and introduce the environmental land management approach to […]
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Right road back to the office
Katherine Maxwell
12.05.2021
The Government’s roadmap out of the current lockdown has undoubtedly been welcome news for employers, who can now start planning to reopen their businesses and bring their employees back to work. However, when putting these plans in place, there are many issues to consider, some of which we’ve outlined below: Effective communication and good planning […]
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Kalifa Review on the UK Fintech sector
John Warchus
12.05.2021
The UK fintech sector has been a vibrant growth story over the past decade or so and, not surprisingly, the UK Government and the sector itself is keen to ensure that it stays that way. In 2020, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak commissioned a report into the UK fintech sector by Ron Kalifa […]
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Delayed diagnosis of Giant Cell Arteritis led to total sight loss
Denise Deakin
11.05.2021
Moore Barlow’s Clinical Negligence team helped to secure compensation for a woman who lost her sight after delays in diagnosing giant cell arteritis. Our client presented to a regional eye unit with partial loss of vision in her right eye. The doctor attending her failed to undertake an adequate history or examination and negligently put […]
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What does mental capacity mean?
Frances Hemus
11.05.2021
Mental capacity is having the ability to make a decision, such as: what to wear; whether to have surgery or how to manage finances or property. The more serious decisions can have legal consequences. With matters involving complex or major decisions, it may be necessary to have a professional opinion on capacity, which could be […]
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The new form of a Section 8 Notice Housing Act
Georgina Dudman
11.05.2021
From 4 May 2021, the prescribed form of notice seeking possession under section 8 of the Housing Act 1988 will be replaced and a new form must be used. In addition, the Assured Tenancies and Agricultural Occupancies (Form) (Moratorium Debt) (Consequential Amendment) (England) Regulations 2021 have been created and outline the legal protections available under […]
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NHS Continuing Healthcare post Covid funding
Nicholas Endean
10.05.2021
At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, many hospital inpatients were relocated to care and nursing homes in order to free up beds for the looming crisis. As part of this rapid movement out of an acute setting, many patients were given what has been known as COVID funding for that placement. […]
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Farmers, mind your head
William Bond
10.05.2021
In 1964 Bob Dylan sang ‘The Times They Are A-Changin’ and today this song holds particularly true for rural life and the farming sector. These areas have seen incessant cutting of subsidies, Brexit, and changes in the law that have not only required changing practices but have impacted incomes too. There’s also greater pressure to […]
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Online applications on the line
Naomi Greenwood
10.05.2021
In the case of Mallon v Aecom Ltd, the Employment Appeal Tribunal was required to delve into the Equality Act 2010 and rule on the case of a job applicant with dyspraxia who claimed there had been failure to make reasonable adjustments for his disability when completing his online application. He said he was at […]
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Is your farming partnership fit for purpose?
Philip Whitcomb
07.05.2021
US President Dwight D Eisenhower is quoted as saying “farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you’re a thousand miles from the corn field”. The same can be said of a farm partnership agreement. It may seem a simple straight forward document but unless you fully understand the farming business in […]
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