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Protection against expulsion
If you are livelihood in residential property the law defends you against harassment and illegal eviction. It does this by making harassment and illegal eviction criminal offences and by enabling a victim to maintain damages through the civil court.
Landlord's obligations
The law makes it an offence for a landlord to:
commit acts likely to interfere with the peace or comfort of a tenant or anyone living with them
persistently withdraw or withhold services for which the tenant has a reasonable need to live in the premises as a home
make a tenant leave their home, or stop using part of it
do anything that stops a tenant doing the things they could normally expect to do
take someone's home away from him or her unlawfully
A person who is convicted by magistrates of an offence under the Protection from Eviction Act 1977 may have to pay a fine or be sent to prison for six months, or both. If the case goes to the Crown Court, the punishment can be prison for up to two years, or a fine, or both.
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