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Del Monte Kenya pineapple plantation at centre of human rights abuse allegations

Fruit giant Del Monte is accused of betraying its human rights pledges with allegations against security guards of violent beatings and the rape of villagers living near to its pineapple plantation in Kenya

2023: England’s ‘pivot year’ in BPS decline

Farmers will find that Basic Payments reduce by 35% this year and by 50% next year, compared to 2020 rates and so will need to look at their businesses In its third year, England's agricultural transition becomes a fact on the farm in 2023, the last year that Basic Payment will be linked to having land or farming.

Agriculture: natural capital assets and carbon sequestration

Ben Sharples explores the implications of two consequential pieces of agricultural legislation

'Super-deduction' tax break 'grossly unfair' for professional services industry 

Many professional services businesses set to miss out on £25 billion 'super-deduction' tax break

The rural challenge

Protecting the wealth of a farming business calls for a range of experienced lawyers, says David Wood

Tinkering with inheritance tax

Recommendations by the Office of Tax Simplification to streamline inheritance tax are not fundamental reform but are welcome, says Matthew Duncan

New EU trade relationship key to farming sector

Brexit will have a fundamental impact on UK's agricultural industry, say lawyers

Commons and the law: The old and the new

Alec Samuels considers the problems of old and new commons and old and new rights