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Landlord forces tenant to leave room during inspection

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  • Landlord forces tenant to leave room during inspection

    My landlord was aggressive to me shouting at me several times that I have to leave my room and intimidated me into leaving my room because he did not want for mysterious reasons that I was in my room during it is inspected by third parties about which repairs need to be done to it

    I wanted to be in my room because I did not understand why I could not be here. Moreover, I did not want that my landlord is in my room without me being in it because my landlord could have stolen from my room or looked into confidential documents.

    I feared to be physical abused by my landlord who could have wanted to physically forced me to leave my room so I left my room during two hours the time this inspection took place.

    I would like to know if my landlord has committed not only a civil offence by also criminal offence and which law he has breached
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  • #2
    I forgot to say in my previous post that I have all the evidence.

    I think that “"forced entry”" is a criminal offence; however to ntimidate someone to leave his home to be alone in it to be able to do what we want in it seems to be worse.

    My problem is to know which criminal law (and which section of this law) my landlord has broken to convince the Police to charge him with a criminal offence because this will give a protection against further harassment from my landlord.

    The fact to be charged with a criminal offence will encourage my landlord to stop to harass me.

    My landlord will know that if he carries on doing bad things to me it will be worse for him because the day of the sentencing in the court it will make a big difference whether or not he has carried on harassing me.

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    • #3
      What happened was not right, but may still be short of a criminal offence.
      It is probably harassment which is proscuted by the local authority.

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      • #4
        It should be possible according to criminal law to determine if it is a criminal offence or not . I need to be sure to convince the Police to charge my landlord with a criminal offence especially that the Police has a tendency to consider problems between tenants and landlrods as civil matters even when it is also a criminal matter.

        Do you know which law give the power to local authority to persecute a landlord who harasses a tenance?

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        • #5
          Protection from Harassment Act 1975(?) - last section.

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          • #6
            The best thing might be to keep a diary, note down stuff that happens.

            https://www.gov.uk/private-renting-e...egal-evictions

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            • #7
              Protection from Harassment Act 1997 can help but I need to know which section makes reference to a criminal offence.

              I have found another piece of legislation and I would like to know if it could be useful. This other piece of legislation is Section 6 of the Criminal Law Act 1977 which says:

              6 Violence for securing entry.

              (1)Subject to the following provisions of this section, any person who, without lawful authority, uses or threatens violence for the purpose of securing entry into any premises for himself or for any other person is guilty of an offence, provided that—

              (a)there is someone present on those premises at the time who is opposed to the entry which the violence is intended to secure; and

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              • #8
                and?

                ​​​​​​...

                Do you know why your landlord wanted to inspect?

                Was it as a result of anything you had done, or that he thought you might have done?
                Lawyer (solicitor) - retired from practice, now supervising solicitor in a university law clinic. I do not advise by private message.

                Litigants in Person should download and read the Judiciary's handbook for litigants in person: https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/..._in_Person.pdf

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                • #9
                  The missing part is

                  (b)the person using or threatening the violence knows that that is the case

                  like any accommodation routine inspetion could be necessary to know if repairs are necessary, I think also that my landlrod wanted to make my room nicer like to paint it to rent it for more money

                  It was not because something that I could have done

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