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Your rights if your landlord asks you to leave your home. What you can do if you are going to be evicted, or if you think you have been illegally evicted.
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Explains the different grounds a landlord can evict you on. Links to where you can get advice if you think you are at risk of losing your home. (England)
Basic overview about the steps that your council or housing association landlord must take if they want to evict you, what happens at the court hearing and afterwards.
Landlords can evict an assured shorthold tenant after giving two months' notice using a Section 21 notice and getting a court order. Most private rented tenants are assured shorthold tenants. Information about the steps to eviction a landlord must take.
The court usually can't stop the eviction of a private tenant. Sometimes it can agree to delay the eviction. Information about when legal aid may be available in this situation and how to ask a court to stop or delay the bailiffs.
Private tenants are usually entitled to written notice to leave their homes. Explains when a private landlord has the right to give you an eviction notice, what it must include and what you should do. (Content applies to England only.)
Explains how a landlord can evict you for rent arrears, the different types of court orders the landlord can obtain and advises how you can prevent or postpone eviction by the landlord.
Explains what happens if you are renting your home and your landlord applies for a court order to evict you. Includes what happens at court, what you should bring, and what the court can decide.
An illegal eviction takes place if your landlord makes you leave your home without following the proper legal process. It is a criminal offence. Information about what you can do about it, and who can help you. (Content applies to England only)