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5 Jul 2021 13:39
EU to lift ban on animal by-products for livestock foodOver ten years ago I posted on the wasteful prohibition under the EU Animal By-Product Regulation on feeding meat and bone meal – waste from slaughterhouses – to omnivorous farm animals, poultry and pigs. See Pigswill and public health: a load of EU Bull, 7 January 2021. While this regulation has more...
PREVENTING PRESCRIPTIVE RIGHTS ARISING: NO MORE MR NICE GUY?
WHEN WILL USER BE PERMISSIVE?
INTRODUCTION 1. This talk concerns the issue of when user will be permissive so as to prevent the following rights from arising: · Private rights of way (easements) · Public Rights of Way (highways) · Village Greens and/or Recreational Easements 2. All these rights can only be acquired where the more...
ABATING NATURAL NUISANCES:
WHAT STEPS WILL SATISFY THE MEASURED DUTY OF CARE?
INTRODUCTION 1. Where there is a naturally occurring nuisance on a landowner’s land it is now well established that he will owe a “measured duty of care” to adjoining landowners who are affected by it. 2. What is meant by a “measured duty of care” in broad terms is a duty that reflects the more...
24 Mar 2020 15:22
Agriculture Bill: “The chickens will win every time”Good news from the crisis front, although I’m afraid not the one we’re all thinking of: the government’s Agriculture Bill, which sets out its major post-Brexit agricultural policy, has recently passed committee stage and will soon (coronavirus permitting) be presented to the House of Lords. It shows more...
24 Oct 2019 12:26
Post-Brexit Immigration and Recruitment to the Veterinary SectorEU/EEA/CH contribution to the Veterinary Profession. According to The Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons there are 23,220 vets working in the UK[1]. Speaking at the Official Veterinarian Conference 2017, Nigel Gibbens (former CVO) told his audience “more than 90% of people working within the FSA more...
4 Jun 2019 15:00
Environmental Law News UpdateIn this latest Environmental Law News Update, Charles Morgan, Gordon Wignall and Natasha Hausdorff consider the anxiety over water resources in the UK, a DEFRA report into the progress of the reform of water abstraction in England and a challenge from ClientEarth over Highways England’s lack of more...
30 Apr 2019 14:16
Do farmers still do joint ventures?Julie Robinson, head of our agriculture team, answers a question from a client. The short answer to our client’s question is yes. Farm businesses are engaging in a whole raft of collaborative ventures as they focus on increasing their competitiveness and preparing for the future. Why are farmers more...
8 Apr 2019 10:16
Leaving the EU with no deal - will I still get my 2019 BPS payment?In this short article, our Head of Agriculture, Julie Robinson, takes a look at what happens to UK farmers’ right to direct payments under the CAP if we leave the EU without a deal on 12 April. If the UK leaves the EU without a deal on 12 April, the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy will cease to more...
21 Jan 2019 15:38
Private Nuisance: Key Contemporary Issues or “Bringing Home the Bacon”Six Pump Court, together with UKELA Eastern Region presents an environmental seminar:- Private Nuisance: Key Contemporary Issues, or “Bringing Home the Bacon” Speakers: Stephen Hockman QC, Charles Morgan, Gordon Wignall, William Upton and Mark Davies Purpose: Smelly pig litigation since William more...
17 Jan 2019 15:51
What happens to the Agriculture Bill if there is no Brexit?Following the decisive defeat of the Prime Minister’s Brexit deal in parliament this week, Julie Robinson considers the implications for the Agriculture Bill if the UK does not leave the EU. The whole rationale behind the Agriculture Bill was to enable a new support scheme for farmers to be put in more...
30 Oct 2018 15:18
“Hardwicke is a first division operation with great strength in depth” – Hardwicke achieves excellent results in Legal 500 2018Hardwicke is delighted to report excellent results in the 2018 edition of Legal 500. A new recommendation as a leading set for Insurance and Reinsurance has been added to Hardwicke’s recommendations as a leading set for Construction, Personal Injury, Professional Negligence, Property Litigation and more...
28 Sep 2018 10:01
De-linked payments, the agricultural transition and planning for uncertaintyPosted 27 Sep 2018 Author Julie Robinson In the absence of further clarity from Defra, land purchases and other transactions involving the restructuring of farm businesses will inevitably be dogged by uncertainty about the basis for de-linked payments. Our Head of Agriculture, Julie Robinson, takes more...
17 Jul 2018 16:04
Agricultural Dispute Resolution1. No doubt the vast majority of potential and actual disputes never reach the stage where the parties instruct barristers. Often we only get involved once a dispute becomes particularly intractable, and litigation is afoot. Nevertheless, because of the technical nature of real property law in more...
24 Jan 2018 10:19
Sporting Rights - A Question of Balance1. Cases on sporting rights are very rare. The law on such rights is of comparatively modern provenance. Sporting rights are a species of profits à prendre. If you look at the only 19th century textbook on profits à prendre, John Edward Hall’s Treatise on Profits à Prendre and Rights of Common of more...
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