New agricultural solicitor joins Ashtons Legal

Posted 16/01/2014

Ashtons Legal is pleased to welcome a new solicitor to its Agriculture & Estates team. Rebecca Gatens has joined the firm and is based at our Guildhall Street office in Bury St Edmunds, where she joins partner and Head of Agriculture & Estates, Jonathan Long and partner Jeanette Dennis.

Rebecca is a property specialist who qualified as a solicitor four years ago. She previously worked in Lincolnshire where she trained and has a wide range of experience in non-contentious property work including land acquisition and disposals, residential estate set-ups, commercial leases for Landlords and Tenants, and agricultural projects including purchases, sales, restructuring and refinancing of farms.

Rebecca recently acted for 40 Parochial Church Councils, advising on the obligation to investigate and register chancel repair liability, a project which involved extensive legal research in what is a difficult and novel area of the law.

In her spare time, Rebecca enjoys live music, literature and good food.