Elizabeth Earle

Elizabeth is the Knowledge Lawyer for Farrer & Co’s Rural Property practice, providing expert, technical legal support to the team and leading its know-how function.

Elizabeth has many years' experience as a specialist, working in the agriculture, rural property and landed estates sector. She has acted for a variety of clients, often as the principal property contact, including institutional landowners, charities, private trusts and individuals on all aspects of landed estate work including large transactions, renewable energy projects, rights over land and all landlord and tenant matters.

Elizabeth joined Farrer & Co in 2022 to lead the knowledge management and training function for the Rural Property team. She keeps abreast of new law and practice and trains the team on it. She also develops and manages the team’s precedent documents, updating and adapting them to changing circumstances and to reflect new law and policy developments. Elizabeth responds to legal queries arising from the team's work, where specialist, technical input is needed and assists with sharing knowledge and resources across the wider Property team and the firm on matters such as natural capital and ESG where a cross-sector approach is beneficial.

Externally, Elizabeth writes articles, delivers training and prepares legal updates for clients and intermediaries on all areas of rural property law, often considering how new legislative and policy developments will affect the sector.

Elizabeth also assists in delivering training to trainee surveyors preparing for RICS and CAAV exams.