James Stocker
Senior Associate SolicitorJames Stocker is a senior associate solicitor within the rural team, based in the firm's Blackburn office.
James advises clients on a range of legal issues affecting farmers, landowners and rural businesses. Issues including; land and property sales and purchases granting or surrender of easements, development clawback and option agreements, as well as partnership agreements and dissolutions.
James was named as a ‘rising star’ in The Legal 500 guide in 2023
Experience
James gained a broad range of experience in specialist departments before qualifying into the rural team, specialising in rural and agricultural law.
Previous cases include:
- Dealing with the purchase of land subject to bank funding where the client was the sitting tenant under and Agricultural Holdings Act 1986 (AHA) succession tenancy
- Assisting a client with a long-term lease and management plan for the establishment of a natural habitat on a client’s land
- Attending to the preparation and completion of a partnership agreement where the next generation were being appointed as salaried partners in the farm
- Working with a client, negotiating telecommunications lease provisions for a mast on farmland
- Dealing with the property assents and transfers of farmland in deceased client’s estates
- Assisting a client in preparing custom agreements for activities at the farm including allotment agreements, storage licences, mooring licences and farm business tenancies
Affiliations
- Member of the Law Society
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