In The Press

Duncan Lewis Director Anthony Okhuma was featured in the International Business Times discussing the “rent crisis” in London and the rights of live-in property guardians.

Residential occupiers of property are entitled under eviction law to be given 28 days notice as minimum if they have to vacate it. Some guardian companies are known to give much shorter notice than this because they do not believe they are subject to the legislation as the occupants are licensees, not tenants, so they do not have exclusivity of the property

Anthony stated:

"My personal view is that the [license] agreement itself is subject to challenge in the sense that what I've seen, two weeks' notice is not compliant with the protection of the Eviction Act,".

"When they raise the issue of the license agreement and [that] there is no exclusive occupation of the property, the property owners do not reside in the property [...] neither do the guardian companies.

"So the fact that they allege there is no exclusivity, the court is subject to various interpretations."