Questions often raised by our prospective clients 

A landlord cannot evict travellers or unauthorised trespassers, the landlord must use the services of an Enforcement Agency. YES: We can carry out traveller, tenant and squatter evictions, using only experienced Certificated Enforcement Agents and or High Court Enforcement Agents. Before serving any notice on Travellers we conduct a risk and social needs assessment to ensure the Travellers are fit to be served. We have a 100% success rate with gypsy eviction or eviction of illegally camped Gypsies / Travellers on both Council and Private land.

A person or groups of people on land without the landowner’s permission are deemed to be trespassers.
Private landowners can still go down the court route of obtaining an order for possession, then transferring it to the High Court to obtain a writ of possession that is enforced by High Court Enforcement Agents, or they can use the ancient remedy of Common Law.

In fact, the landowner can obtain a court order and still choose to remove the trespassers under Common Law. Halsburys Laws of England (Paragraph 1400, Volume 45, and 4th Edition) state that:

“If a trespasser peaceably enters or is on land, the person who is in or entitled to possession may request him to leave, and if he refuses to leave, remove him from the land using no more force than is reasonably necessary. This right is not ousted if the person entitled to possession has succeeded in an action at law for possession but chooses not to sue out his Writ.”

Once we receive your instruction, we start the process immediately. We will then service notice to the trespassers, giving them 24 hours to leave your land; if they fail to comply, our Enforcement Agents are then deployed to evict them. Traveler evictions often involve the removal of possessions and vehicles, and J.G Civil Enforcement Consultants (The Company) will organise Police assistance if we think it’s required. posuere.

Depending on the situation we can evict under common law on the same day.

The landlord must first ask the trespasser to leave his land. If he refuses, the landowner can then remove the trespassers “using no more force than is reasonably necessary”. However, if the trespasser enters with force and violence, then the landowner can remove them without having previously asked them to leave.

The Department for Communities and Local Government (formerly The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister ODPM) (February 2004) advises that the police should always be notified of an eviction and called in to stand by to prevent a breach of the peace.
Under the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, the police can, at their discretion, tell trespassers to leave land as long as reasonable steps have been taken by or on behalf of the landowner to ask them to leave and there are two or more people intending to reside on the land. Any one of three further conditions must be met:
• if any of those persons has caused damage to the land or to property on the land; or
• used threatening, abusive or insulting words or behavior towards the occupier, a member of his family or an employee or agent of his; or
• those persons have between them six or more vehicles on the land.
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