Events

ALA Cornwall and Devon are delighted to invite you to their Winter Seminar “Agricultural Tenancies – drilling into the detail of Tenant’s Improvement and Succession” on Thursday 23rd January 2025, 14.00 – 18.00 at Strawberry Fields, Lifton, Devon PL16 0DH.

The Cornwall and Devon Regional Group will be hosting an informative seminar focusing on topical agricultural law issues. 

We are delighted to be joined by speakers Jamie Sutherland and Emily Windsor from Falcon Chambers. The speakers will provide an update on recent case law and discuss practical examples of cases they have been working on in the key topics of:

1. Tenant’s Improvements – when is a fixture not a fixture – an overview of the statutory improvements regime and caselaw for Farm Business Tenancies and Agricultural Holdings

2. Succession – considering the recent changes to the statutory succession requirements for Agricultural Holdings Act 1986 tenancies

Timetable:

Arrival from 14.00

Seminar: 14.30

Finger buffet: 17.15

Depart: 18.00

Please click HERE to book

ALA and Non-ALA Members are welcome to attend.

If you have any specific dietary requirements, please email enquiries@ala.org.uk at the time of booking

Time : 14.00 - 18.00

Cost : £24 (incl VAT) Students Free

ALA Yorkshire are delighted to invite you to their winter seminar event with Catherine Taskis, KC of Falcon Chambers.  

2.00pm: Arrival 

2.20pm:  Agricultural Holdings Act 1986

3.00pm:  Break

3.20pm:  Agricultural Tenancies Act 1995

4.00pm:  End

Tickets:  £18 (incl VAT), Students Free

Please click HERE to book 

ALA Cheshire are delighted to invite you to their Winter Seminar on Thursday 13th February 2025, 08.30 – 11.00 at Capesthorne Hall, Siddington.  

We are delighted to be joined by speakers covering the following topics:

Nicola Hall, ELM Associates – SFI and SFI Updates

Jack Thomas and Charlie Elliot, Tilhill Forestry – Woodland plans, grants for the same and the advantages of putting them in place

David McCulloch, Carbon Store UK – Legal contracts associated with the sale of carbon credits that have been issued by the Woodland Carbon Code

Arrival from 08.30 for Breakfast

Seminar: 09.00

Depart: 11.00am

Please click HERE to book

ALA and Non-ALA Members are welcome to attend

Time : 08.30 - 11.00

Cost : £24 incl VAT, Students Free

We are delighted to announce the details of our Annual Conference held on Thursday, 27 February at the Copthorne Tara Hotel, Kensington, London

The Conference programme will include our annual Case Law update, panel sessions on Succession and IHT Planning Strategies and also Tenancy Succession and the New Suitability Test under the Agricultural Holdings Act 1986.  We will complete the day with a session on Renewables in 2025.

Places will be allocated on a first come, first served basis, so please ensure you book early.  

Registration will be from 9.30am and the Conference will commence at 10am and close at 4pm.

CPD hours:  5 hours

The Conference will be open for ALA Members and Non-Members (with a discounted rate for ALA Members).

Click HERE to book

Time:  09.30 – 16.00

Cost:  Members – £144 (incl VAT), Non Members – £216 (incl VAT), Students – Free

FULLY BOOKED – Please email enquiries@ala.org.uk if you would like to be added to the waiting list.

The ALA are delighted to announce the Starter for Ten 2025 Course will take place at Warwick Conferences on 4th – 6th March 2025.

The course is run over three days and covers agricultural holdings law, land law, tax/trusts in an agricultural context and the development of future support and financial assistance schemes. 

Click HERE for the Course Prospectus and Enrolment Form

Please note that to enrol on the course, attendees must also be full members of the Association.

Please note that following receipt of confirmed bookings from the initial expression of interest, we only have a few places still available.  These will be allocated on a first come, first served basis with a limit of 2 attendees from any one firm.

The ALA are delighted to announce the 2025 Starter for Ten Course – Scotland, will take place on 23 – 24 April 2025 at the Stirling Court Hotel.

The course is run over two days and covers  agricultural holdings law, other occupational arrangements, BPS, the operation of Scottish Land Court and Tenant Farming Commissioner, ADR and the development of future support and financial assistance schemes.

The course is principally intended for trainees and the recently qualified but also those who wish to fully revise or receive a thorough introduction to the complexities of agricultural holdings law and other key area of rural practice in Scotland.

The course Prospectus and Enrolment Form can be accessed HERE

The course fee includes all course materials, food and accommodation.