We live in a unique part of the country. The countryside and coastline of the North East is not only spectacular - it has great agricultural development and sporting value.

Smithson Law Firm has gained experience in all legal matters affecting people living, working and doing business in the countryside, whether commercial agricultural or environmental.

From tenant farmers, estate or rural property owners and rural business owners, we can help you to avoid pitfalls and to maximise your income.

Where land agents advise on land management, practicalities and negotiating transactions, we do the paperwork. We’ll tell you what matters legally and how you stand with the law of the land.

Contact us for more information in the following fields:

• Agricultural tenancies
• Business Sales and Purechases
• Easements and Rights of Way
• Employment including migrant workers
• Environmental issues
• Estate management legal issues
• First registration of property at the Land Registry
• Imposing or releasing restrictive covenants including clawback
• Option agreements
• Rural property owning, buying, selling, occupying
• Sales purchases and mortgages of farms, estates, country houses and rural property
• Sporting rights
• Please also see our pages on Business and Corporate Law