Cartmell Shepherd

Cartmell Shepherd is adept at handling ‘the full range of services needed for farmers – land sales, divorce, conveyancing, partnership disputes, wills, estate planning’, specialising in sales and purchases, issues relating to the ownership of mines and minerals, renewable energy projects and common land mandates. The team is well-regarded for its expertise in tenancy matters and contested succession cases, and Jonathan Carroll, who covers contentious and non-contentious matters including AHA tenancies, and the creation and dissolution of partnerships, heads up the department in Carlisle. Mark Jackson and Katherine Pretswell-Walker specialise in the sale and acquisition of farms, estates, forestry and complex rural residential property. In Brampton, Kendra Winter assists with trusts, farming wills and probate, while Penrith-based Bethan Griffiths handles agricultural transactional and leasehold work.