Unlawful eviction and harassment

<h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading" lang="en" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-size: 1.8em; line-height: 1.3; font-family: "Linux Libertine", Georgia, Times, serif;">Unlawful eviction and harassment</h1><div id="bodyContent" class="mw-body-content" style="position: relative; line-height: 1.6; font-size: 0.875em; z-index: 0; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: sans-serif;"><div id="siteSub" class="noprint" style="font-size: 12.88px;">From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</div><div id="contentSub" style="font-size: 11.76px; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1.4em 1em; color: rgb(84, 89, 93); width: auto;"></div><div id="jump-to-nav" class="mw-jump" style="overflow: hidden; height: 0px; zoom: 1; user-select: none; margin-top: -1.4em !important; margin-bottom: 1.4em !important;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unlawful_eviction_and_harassment#mw-head" style="color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"></a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unlawful_eviction_and_harassment#p-search" style="color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"></a></div><div id="mw-content-text" lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr;"><div class="mw-parser-output"><p style="margin-top: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; line-height: inherit;"><b>Unlawful eviction and harassment</b> is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_offence" class="mw-redirect" title="Criminal offence" style="color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">criminal offence</a> in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom" style="color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">United Kingdom</a> under the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protection_from_Eviction_Act_1977" title="Protection from Eviction Act 1977" style="color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Protection from Eviction Act 1977</a>. It is the crime of a landlord or agent unlawfully <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evicting" class="mw-redirect" title="Evicting" style="color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">evicting</a> or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harassing" class="mw-redirect" title="Harassing" style="color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">harassing</a> his or her tenant.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="line-height: 1; font-size: 11.2px; white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (February 2010)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></p><p style="margin-top: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; line-height: inherit;">Unlawful eviction is the deprivation of occupation of a residential occupier of any premises of his occupation or any part of it or attempts to do so :s1(2) of 1977 Act. Actions such as changing the locks <i>R v Yuthiwattana</i> (1984) 16 HLR 49, CA or locking a lavatory door <i>R v Burke</i> (1991) 22 HLR 433, HL all constitute unlawful eviction.</p><p style="margin-top: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; line-height: inherit;">Conduct that could amount to harassment under the Act includes interfering with peace and comfort of a residential occupier or members of his household or persistently withdrawing or withholding services that are needed for the occupation of the premises used as residence: section 1(3A).</p><h2 style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-family: "Linux Libertine", Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 1.3;"><span class="mw-headline" id="External_links">External links</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-size:10pt; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; font-family: sans-serif; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em; color: rgb(84, 89, 93);">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Unlawful_eviction_and_harassment&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: External links" style="color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em; color: rgb(84, 89, 93);">]</span></span></h2><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("[안내]태그제한으로등록되지않습니다-data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%225%22 height=%2213%22%3E %3Ccircle cx=%222.5%22 cy=%229.5%22 r=%222.5%22 fill=%22%2300528c%22/%3E %3C/svg%3E");"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1977/43" style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("[안내]태그제한으로등록되지않습니다-data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%2212%22 height=%2212%22%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%23fff%22 stroke=%22%2336c%22 d=%22M1.5 4.518h5.982V10.5H1.5z%22/%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%2336c%22 d=%22M5.765 1H11v5.39L9.427 7.937l-1.31-1.31L5.393 9.35l-2.69-2.688 2.81-2.808L4.2 2.544z%22/%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%23fff%22 d=%22M9.995 2.004l.022 4.885L8.2 5.07 5.32 7.95 4.09 6.723l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z%22/%3E %3C/svg%3E"); padding-right: 13px;">Protection from Eviction Act 1977</a> full legislation on legislation.gov.uk, with part 1 addressing Unlawful eviction and harassment</li></ul></div></div><div id="catlinks" class="catlinks" data-mw="interface" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); padding: 5px; margin-top: 1em; clear: both;"><div id="mw-normal-catlinks" class="mw-normal-catlinks"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Category" title="Help:Category" style="color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Categories</a>: <ul style="list-style: none none; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline;"><li style="margin: 0.125em 0px; display: inline-block; line-height: 1.25em; border-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0.5em 0px 0.25em; zoom: 1;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Law_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Category:Law in the United Kingdom" style="color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Law in the United Kingdom</a></li></ul></div></div></div><p><br></p>