Leyshon WS is a specialist legal practice based in Peebles in the Scottish Borders. We provide expert legal advice on all aspects of Land, Agricultural and Rural Property Law.
John Leyshon is the Principal of Leyshon WS and is a Law Society of Scotland accredited specialist in Agricultural Law with a focus on farmland and forestry purchases and sales .
John has provided a wide variety of clients with land, rural property and agricultural law advice for the last 10 years and has a thorough knowledge of tenancy arrangements under the Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Act 2003. As a highly experienced property lawyer, John has a thorough command of the law concerning servitudes, boundaries, access rights, deeds of conditions, the splitting-up of land or buildings into separate titles, transfer of single farm payment entitlements with or without land, advice concerning radio mast leases, mineral leases and quarry/landfill leases.
John acts as consultant to other law firms Scotland-wide on Agricultural Law matters.
For other more general legal services including Family Law, the making and alteration of Wills, Employment Law and raising or defending actions in the Sheriff Court, John provides voluntary referrals to the firm of Blackwood & Smith WS in Peebles where previously he was one of the partners.