Rural land & property advice • Farm business management • Freehold valuations & sales • Estate management & lettings • Rental valuations • Compensation for compulsory purchase • Pipelines & wayleaves • Forestry • Equestrian properties • Agricultural, forestry & environmental grants • Agricultural law, including Agricultural Holdings Act 1986, Agricultural Tenancies Act 1995, Wildlife & Countryside Act 1981, Town & Country Planning Act 1990, as amended by the Planning & Compensation Act 1991 • Management agreements

Farm viability appraisals • Negligent advice claims • Dairy herd management • Production losses linked to feeding stuffs • Agricultural occupancy condition, application & removal • Consequential business losses • Livestock production • Personal injury claims

Farm management • Farm economics • Arable farming • Livestock farming • Farm staff recruitment • Agriculture, ancillary industries

Rural Chartered Surveyor providing expert witness & litigation support services. Specialist areas: • Agricultural Holdings Act end of tenancy claims • Agricultural banking & finance • Agricultural insolvency • Agricultural Land Tribunal • Agricultural tenancy disputes & arbitrations • Estate management • Farm business management • Farm & rural property valuations • Milk quota, including Dairy Produce Quotas Regulations apportionments • Partnership dissolution & disputes • Property planning & development • Boundary & ...

Valuation of rural property • Agricultural & residential landlord & tenant • Sporting rights • Compulsory purchase & compensation • Rural estate management • Dispute resolution • Insurance of property & claims settling • Agricultural finance

Farm management • Horticultural economics • Arable farming • Livestock farming • Personal injury • Producer groups • Grants • Subsidies • Renewables • Environmental farming • Organic production • Quantum • Diversification

Farm management • Livestock management • Arable management • SSSIs • Contract farming • Share farming • Partnership farming • Farm rent reviews • Set-aside & diversification in farming • Estate appraisals, insurance & litigation • Injuries on farms

Map research & interpretation • Aerial photography research & interpretation • Property boundary research, survey & reinstatement • Expert advice on mapping & cartography • Rights of way mapping & research • Interpretation of satellite imagery • Expert knowledge & experience of Ordnance Survey mapping specifications & practices • Long experience of surveying for Land Registry title plans • Over 40 years' experience as an Ordnance Survey surveyor & Chief Surveyor • Acted as an expert witness on behalf of Ordnance Survey

Boundary & other property disputes • Valuation (capital, rental, for all purposes), especially rural & agricultural property • Compensation, especially roads & pipelines • Agricultural law, landlord & tenant • Rural planning

Investigation of title deeds with respect to boundary dispute resolution • Field determination of boundary position, including hitherto undefined boundaries followed by deed or title plan preparation for registration or rectification purposes • Reporting & attendance for litigation purposes • Post-judgement boundary demarcation • Professional negligence reporting • Plan preparation to support accident & insurance issues • Rights of way investigation & reporting • Member of the Expert Witness Institute

Rural Practice Chartered Surveyor, Land Agent & Agricultural Valuer • Valuation of freehold property • Valuation of live & dead farming stock • Farm business management • Crop loss claims • Agricultural holdings: rent review arbitrations • Agricultural land tribunal: succession • Tenant right • Compensation for roads, pipelines, etc.

I have been a Chief Surveyor & Geodetic Advisor to Ordnance Survey, for whom I have acted as both expert witness & witness of fact, in this country & Germany. More particularly, I have been instructed in surveying for boundary disputes, demarcation & rights of way. I have attained the Cardiff University Bond Solon Certificate as an expert witness. ...

Building surveying • Contract disputes & boundary & party wall matters • Negligent surveys • Accommodation needs

Valuation of agricultural & rural properties • Agricultural tenancies • Farming partnerships • Milk quotas • Boundary disputes

Building contract disputes: financial & contractual analysis • Dilapidations claims • Dampness & disrepair claims • Party Wall Act • Defective or incomplete building works • Building defects: commercial & residential • Boundary disputes • Access to neighbouring land • Insolvency claims in construction contracts • Mr Frias-Robles is a Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS) • Party wall expert & Chairman of the Pyramus and Thisbe Club (Wessex Branch)

I have been involved in resolving boundary disputes for more than 25 years • Founder Member of the Expert Witness Institute • Approved entries in the Sweet & Maxwell & RICS Directories of Expert Witnesses • Corresponding Member of the RICS Boundaries & Party Walls Working Group • Experienced as a Single Joint Expert, & have undertaken large landfill cases & rights of way litigation • Lectured & published articles on the accuracy of conveyance plans

Boundary disputes • Party wall matters, including joint appointments & third surveyor appointments • Member of RICS neighbourhood disputes panel

Water treatment • Wastewater treatment • Water pollution • Water contamination • Sewage treatment • Odour nuisance • River pollution • Flooding • Flood risk assessment • Drainage • Sewerage • Land drainage • Highway drainage & RTAs • Tunnelling • Directional drilling • Environmental impact assessment • Professional negligence • Personal injury • Water-borne bacteria • Weil's disease • Legionnaire's disease • Cryptosporidium • Qualified as a Mediator

Flooding • Hydrology • Hydraulic modelling • Surface water management • Integrated urban drainage • Drainage & sewerage • Sewerage management • Waste water • Land drainage • Reservoir inundation modelling

Over 20 years' experience in technical agriculture, farm accountancy & interpretation of legislation • Services to the legal & insurance professions in the following areas: • Farm accidents • Product liability • Chemical damage • Road accidents to farmers • Farm income loss assessment • Fire & storm damage • Trespass • Farm issues due to marriage breakdown • Employer & public liability • Interpretation of EU & National legislation as applicable to farming & agriculture ...

Town & country planning: • Environmental impact • Environmental protection: • Environmental management • Environmental monitoring • Water: • Water resources • Water quality • River pollution • Effluent pollution, analysis & treatment • Air: • Odour pollution & nuisance • Agriculture: • Agricultural engineering • Agricultural construction & use regulations • Health & safety accidents • Irrigation systems

Expertise relates to: • Insurance claims • Agricultural valuation • Stock & crop valuation • Health & safety • Accidents • Animal husbandry

Rural & agricultural property: • Agricultural landlord & tenant disputes, Agricultural Tenancies Act 1995 & Agricultural Holdings Act 1986 • Rent reviews, notice to quit & remedy of breaches of terms of tenancies • Valuations of farm & rural property • Freehold & tenancy valuations • Rental & capital valuations • Compulsory purchases & compensation • Divorce • Family disputes • Partnership & company valuations • Inheritance & capital gains tax valuations • Leasehold enfranchisement • Valuation for insolvency & ...