Profile... Nigel Davis

Director, Nigel is one of the UK’s leading agricultural law specialists with a career spanning more than 35 years.

In recent editions of the Chambers Guide to the UK Legal Profession, peers acknowledge that Nigel has a “unique understanding of the issues facing working farmers” is a “sound technician with a huge personality” and has “enormous experience within the field”.  Nigel Davis’ depth of specialist knowledge is “legendary”.  Clients turn to him on difficult files and “very knotty problems” on account of his “pre-eminent knowledge” of CAP reform, land tribunals, arbitrations and animal welfare issues.  Peers and clients alike commend his adept handling of complex matters.

Nigel is a member of the Law Society and a past Chairman of the Agricultural Law Association (ALA).  He acted as Consultant Editor for agricultural law to the Society for Advanced Legal Studies, was a founder of the AgriLaw Group and has links with the Environmental Law Foundation.  He is also closely associated with agricultural and livestock breed societies.  He is legal adviser to a number of livestock and agricultural show societies, as well as being a livestock panel judge.  He is also an accredited mediator, and a director of MADRA Ltd.

He regularly lectures and leads seminars for a number of organizations and has been an occasional lecturer in agricultural law at De Monfort University and the University of Cumbria.  He is a regular contributor to journals and magazines.  He co-wrote the Agricultural Precedents Handbook (Jordans 2009) and the CLA booklet on Farm Business Tenancies.

In addition to being a well respected agricultural lawyer, Nigel is involved in the agricultural industry in a number of other ways.  He is presently Chairman of the ISDS World Trials for 2011, Secretary to the Dovedale Sheepdog Society, Vice Chairman to the Brailsford and District Ploughing  and Hedge Cutting Society and President Elect of the Rough Fell Sheep Breeders Association as well as being a Governor of the Derbyshire Agricultural and Horticultural Society.'

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