Someone is on your land, in your premises, using your property — without consent, and without leaving. Two truths govern what happens next: the law can move faster than rumour suggests, and self-help creates risks that dwarf the delay it saves.
The Lawful Machinery
A continuing trespass renews itself daily — the classic case for restraint rather than pricing, since damages for tomorrow’s repetition of today’s wrong repair nothing — and courts deal with clear-title, no-defence occupation with appropriate directness: possession proceedings and injunctive relief restraining continued trespass, with interim orders available where urgency justifies them. The applicant’s discipline is evidentiary: clean proof of title, clear evidence of the occupation and its character (who, since when, doing what — photographed and dated), and correct identification of what’s actually happening on the ground, because the remedy must fit the facts: the overnight encampment, the holdover after a licence ended, and the neighbour’s creeping use are different cases wearing one word.
Why Not Just Sort It Yourself?
Because the legal risk inverts: force, lockouts and confrontation can convert the wronged owner into a defendant — civil claims, criminal exposure, and the moral high ground surrendered at exactly the moment court proceedings would have needed it. The lawful route is genuinely faster than its reputation when moved promptly: fresh occupation is procedurally simpler than settled occupation, which is the practical reason delay costs doubly here — it complicates the law and emboldens the facts.
The wider toolkit: where occupation shades into boundary dispute, blocked access or unauthorised works, the remedies run in parallel — the property injunction page maps the full terrain, and farm cases get the agricultural practice’s grounding.
Possession to restore? Lawfully, and starting today: 01 5827148.