Barristers at New Square Chambers are routinely instructed in a broad range of agricultural cases, including common land, town and village greens and public rights of way matters. Simon Adamyk successfully represented Hampshire County Council in Comber v Hampshire County Council and Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, two public inquiries resisting challenges to corrections of the common land register and involving decisions spanning half a century. Aidan Briggs was instructed in Maile v Maile, a £4.5m properitary estoppel claim and a will challenge which followed a High Court trial and also involved a cross-claim for trespass and occupation rent. The case raised questions of beneficiaries’ rights of occupation in an unadministered estate, the proper quantum of damages and partner’ rights to occupy partnership land.

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