Tag Archive: unlawful eviction

TRO Confidential : The case of the unwanted Christmas present

A present at Christmas

A day in the life of TRO Ben Reeve Lewis. The case of the unwanted Christmas Present Explanation: Tenancy Relations Officers (TROs) work for local council’s providing advice on landlord tenant law and investigating allegations of harassment and Illegal Eviction and prosecuting landlords. All names are false but the stories are true. This is a…

Landlord and tenant law – implied surrender explained

Houses

Implied surrender/ surrender by operation of law – what is it? Implied surrender (which I mentioned also here) is a useful rule in landlord and tenant law. In most cases if a tenant fails to give up possession of a property, the landlord has to get a court order before he can re-take the property…

Five harassment and unlawful eviction cases

Five cases which show landlords will not gain from unlawful eviction and harassment

The excellent housing law section in Legal Action magazine has five cases reported this month on harassment and unlawful eviction.  I summarise them below. 1. Fakhari v. Newman, Woolwich County Court, 7 January 2010 Here the landlords failed to protect the deposit, and there were repairing problems with the boiler, and the windows. However it…