Eviction
If you are threatened with eviction from your home it is important to seek advice on your tenancy rights.
Your legal rights will depend on the type of tenancy that you hold and also on the reason that the landlord wants to evict you from your home.
It is also important to establish if the eviction is being carried out legally since if landlords do not follow the correct procedure they can commit the criminal offence of unlawful eviction.
We have powers to prosecute offending landlords and a tenant who has been unlawfully evicted can also seek damages from the courts.
The procedure which the landlord must follow to evict you will also depend on who the landlord is.
Council tenants often hold a different type of tenancy to a private tenant and this will effect the procedure the landlord must follow to carry out a lawful eviction.
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