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SQUATTING LAW UPDATE

By admin, 23 August 2012
Author: 
Andy

The new law on squatting (s144 LASPO 2012) will be coming into force on the 1st September 2012. Not everyone who is squatting, or considered by others to be squatting, will be affected by the new law, but people will need to be prepared to explain, quite forcefully at times, why they are not affected.
The wording of S144 starts:
(1)A person commits an offence if—
(a) the person is in a residential building as a trespasser having entered it as a trespasser,

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