This Business Guide gives an overview of the process of getting a possession order from the court with a view to evicting trespassers from your land.

Applying for a possession order is one of several options available to you in evicting trespassers. The other options are listed in our Business Guides:

• “Illegal encampments: preventing and reacting to trespassers” (BG961). This guide also sets out preventative measures, and the initial steps that should be taken (and what to avoid) when first noticing trespassers on your land; and
• “Illegal encampments: police and local authority powers” (BG008).