You may well remember the removal of protesters that the National Eviction Team undertook in January and February 2021 at Euston Square Gardens, central London.

The UK Government imposed a moratorium on fracking in November 2019, amid legal challenges and objections from green protesters.

The Government has made an amendment to the Public Order Bill to make it a criminal offence to cause serious disruption by creating and occupying tunnels or to go equipped to create tunnels.

The anti-vax protesters still remain active around the world, causing concern for local authorities, police, hospitals, schools, politicians and private landlords.

Many of the protester evictions we work on involve the safe removal of protesters who have put themselves in a high, and often precarious, situation.

The National Eviction Team confirms that today, 26th February 2021, the final protester was safely removed from the tunnels under Euston Square Gardens.

Local authorities frequently have to remove travellers from land or the roadside, but they also have to remove occupiers from licensed traveller sites.

When occupiers are removed from a site, they frequently leave possessions behind.

This article covers the recent case in the Court of Appeal about the use of blanket injunctions to ban travellers from stopping on local authority owned land.

This is always a busy time of year for traveller movement, and the pandemic has not changed that. This leaves landowners with the decision as to what to do when they have traveller incursions on illegal encampments.

The majority of possession claims will start in the county court, rather than the High Court. However, there are some specific circumstances where the case may start there.

When evicting occupiers from a site, the one virtual certainty is that there will be resistance in some form or another, which will frequently be accompanied by hazards.