The Bill would also place an additional requirement on the Tribunal to inform the relevant local authority and police where a private landlord has been found to have unlawfully evicted a tenant, and the Scottish Housing Regulator, where a social landlord is found to have unlawfully evicted a tenant
Aoife Deery from Citizens Advice Scotland told the Committee that they have extensive evidence of illegal evictions, for example through landlords fraudulently claiming they wish to sell the property.Meeting of the Parliament: LGHP/11/06/2024 | Scottish Parliament Website Deborah Hay from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation highlighted that in 20% of cases where the landlord wanted to evict in order to sell, the property was not actually sold. And Living...