A leading Welsh law firm has been appointed to provide legal services to Wales’ Young Farmers Clubs (YFC).

JCP Solicitors’ specialist Rural Practice team will offer legal advice to the organisation which supports and enhances the opportunities for Wales YFC members living throughout Wales.

 Love them or hate them – it seems that wind turbines are here to stay.  The Farmers Guardian recently reported that wind power expert Mark Newton believes every farm in the UK will have a wind turbine in five years’ time.  Despite much opposition over recent years the wind power industry is growing rapidly and more and more farmers are looking at the opportunities that turbines can create.

 A case that considered the obvious error provision in relation to the submission of a claim to the Single Payment Scheme (SPS) is that of Peter Strawson Limited (the Claimant) v The Secretary of State for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (the Defendant) [2010] EWHC 3286 (Admin).

The RPA withheld the 2007 SPS payment and applied a penalty. The Claimant judicially reviewed the decision further to exhausting the appeals procedure.

 One of Wales’ leading independent law firms has advanced its position as a specialist adviser in the field of contentious trusts and probate following the appointment of one of their team as associate member to a leading industry panel.

JCP Solicitors, which has practices in Swansea, Whitland and Fishguard, now boasts two team members who are affiliated with the Association of Contentious Trust and Probate Specialists (ACTAPS).