Squatting and Sitting in -- Another View
[1977] Crim LR at 139.
Victoria University of Wellington Legal Research Paper No. 126/2017
10 Pages Posted: 27 Jan 2014 Last revised: 21 Sep 2017
Date Written: 1977
Abstract
The Law Commission has concluded that the criminal law has a diminished role to play in regard to trespass to land, a concept which includes both squatting and sitting in. The purpose of this article is to comment on the Law Commission’s proposals in regard to forcible entry and detainer and conspiracy to trespass, and the repeal of the Forcible Entry Acts. It analyses the substituted offences of using violence for the purpose of entry and remaining, having been asked to leave by the displaced residential occupier. The author outlines a number of issues relating to these provisions, and doubts that these reforms will have significant practical impact. Abstract by Rose Goss.
Keywords: squatting, sitting in, trespass, criminal trespass, forcible entry
JEL Classification: K1, K14
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