Maddie Dunn

Legal Director at Charles Russell Speechlys LLP

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Maddie is an experienced agricultural and rural dispute resolution specialist. Her practice has a specific focus on the farming sector within which she acts for a wide range of clients including landed estates, trustees, partnerships, private individuals, and corporate, statutory and Crown bodies.

Due to the diverse needs of her rural and agricultural clients, particularly traditional and modern landed estates, Maddie undertakes a wide variety of agricultural legal work, including both the conduct and resolution of active disputes, and advisory work to help mitigate the risk of future dispute.

Maddie's contentious practice regularly comprises of cases involving proprietary estoppel, farming partnership and quasi-partnership disputes, equine impoundment and straying livestock, prescriptive easements, and contentious family trust disputes. She has significant experience of landlord and tenant issues, particularly those related to Agricultural Holdings Act tenancies. Her AHA expertise includes succession applications (on retirement and death), interpretation of access rights, strategic planning in advance of prospective developments, regaining possession for development (including arbitration following notice to quit) and breach management and enforcement.

Maddie joined Charles Russell Speechlys in 2025.