When demonstrators, squatters or travellers occupy land or commercial property, landlords have two main options to remove them: court action to obtain a writ of possession, or common law.

Rescue cover implies that the person wants to be rescued, but a protester actively resisting is quite different, with greatly increased risk of injury.

We sometimes find that some squatters will be suffering from mental health issues. Here we look at the likely prevalence, how we deal with it and some real life examples.

On 4th July 2018, Alun Morgan and David Asker presented a National Eviction Team webinar on the removal of protesters and demonstrators. Here are the answers to the questions raised.

At a demonstration site, apart from the protestors themselves, the other group of people whose presence you can almost guarantee are journalists.

Lock-ons are a favourite device used by protestors to make the removal process more challenging.