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As Certificated Bailiffs and Enforcement Officers we undertake Process Serving and effect service of Eviction Notices and Orders for Posession of Land that is being occupied by trespassers.
Safeguard Bailiff Services are instructed on a regular basis to recover possession of land from unwanted trespassers. Court proceedings involve delay that can be extremely expensive. An occupation of tresspassers over several weeks at a trading estate, office complex or shopping center can result in a disastrous loss of business, and possible loss of customers but there is a fast alternative course of action that we utilise regularly and very successfully for many high-profile clients. Usiong the common law rights of a landowner we take legal possession of an occupied site usually within 24 to 48 hours of being instructed. Police are informed and called upon as required to help to stop any possible breach ot the peace. We undertake evictions using only legal means against trespassers, gypsies & travellers who have entered land without the permission of the land owners. Our specialist knowledge in this area has enabled us over many years to complete a significant number of removals successfully on behalf of public and private clients. We accept Instructions from private landowners, Local Authorities, Solicitors and Law firms. We also undertake Common Law eviction of Gypsies, Travellers, Itinerants who are Trespassing on Private Land. We will operate under the Common Law rights of Landowners. - We operate under Section Section 77 for Local Authorities. And under section 61 (Assisting the Police) Common Law rights of Landowners Common law is not law made by Acts of Parliament. It is law made by judges' decisions in the courts over the years. The common law rule says that an owner can evict you if you do not have a right to be on his or her land. Upon receipt of your instructions for a Common Law eviction, the enforcement officer attends upon the land to complete a risk assessment and serve a notice of eviction. Trespassers are normally required to vacate the land in 24hrs. We operate under the Common Law rights of Landowners. - We operate under Section Section 77 for Local Authorities. We operate under Section Section 77 for Local Authorities. Under sections 77-80 of the 1994 Act, local authorities may direct persons who are unlawfully residing in vehicles on land in their own area to leave. These powers extend to privately owned land. It is an offence to fail to comply with such a direction or to return within 3 months. A magistrates’ court can make a removal order authorising the local authority to enter the land and remove the persons and vehicles. Section 77 provides: (1) If it appears to a local authority that persons are for the time being residing in a vehicle or vehicles within that authority’s area - (a) on any land forming part of a highway; (b) on any other unoccupied land; or (c) on any occupied land without the consent of the occupier, the authority may give a direction that those persons and any others with them are to leave the land and remove the vehicle or vehicles and any other property they have with them on the land.’ And under section 61 Assisting the Police Section 61 of the 1994 Act provides a potentially even more draconian power for the police to remove Gypsies and Travellers where the landowner or occupier has taken reasonable steps and where one of three criteria are satisfied. Failure to obey such a direction or returning to the land in question within three months is not only an offence but can result in arrest and impoundment of vehicles (i.e. the Gypsies’ and Travellers’ homes), even before a magistrates’ court order has been obtained. Section 61 provides: (1) If the senior police officer present at the scene reasonably believes that two or more persons are trespassing on land and are present there with the common purpose of residing there for any period, that reasonable steps have been taken by or on behalf of the occupier to ask them to leave and - (a) that any of those persons has caused damage to the land or to property on the land or used threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour towards the occupier, a member of his family or an employee or agent of his, or (b) that those persons have between them six or more vehicles on the land, he may direct those persons, or any of them, to leave the land and to remove any vehicles or other property they have with them on the land. |
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