Mediation and Agriculture
Core and the Agricultural Law Association co-hosted an event at Stirling Management Centre in February on the topic of ‘Mediation in Agricultural Disputes’.
Sir Crispin Agnew of Lochnaw Bt QC and Jamie Whittle of R & R Urquhart and a Core Associate set out the range of areas in which mediation can be used to enhance the management and resolution of disputes in an agricultural context.
The large attendance of land agents, surveyors, lawyers and others with an interest in agriculture witnessed a demonstration of mediation in practice, conducted by John Sturrock, involving a landlord and a tenant farmer with their respective advisors.
Suffice to say that many in the audience thought that the example was very real to life! There was an enthusiastic response and many left thinking that there is much scope for the use of mediation in this field.