The Landlord Law Which Possession Proceedings Guide has been updated to include Welsh law

I’m on a bit of a roll updating our guides to include guidance for Welsh landlords. 

The last of our ‘free guides’ to be updated is the ever popular Which Possession Proceedings Guide.

Why the guide is necessary

When bringing a claim for possession it is really important to have identified the correct procedure and to have served the correct notices first.

When you hear that a landlord has experienced awful problems getting their possession order and has had to spend huge sums of legal fees, this is usually because a basic mistake has been made right at the start.

For example, if the landlord is using one of the no-fault eviction grounds, one of the legal pre-requisites may not have been properly complied with.  Or perhaps the wrong notice was served first.

Contrary to what some landlords assume, Judges are not going to cut them any slack because the tenants have been unreasonable and the landlord is a ‘nice person’.

Evicting a tenant is a very serious thing which can have life-changing consequences.  Once someone has lived on the street, it is often hard for them to return to ‘normal life.  A judge is not going to potentially condemn someone to this life unless the landlord has fully complied with all the legal requirements.

The Landlord Law Which Possession Proceedings Guide is a diagnostic tool to help landlords work out the correct procedure to use and any steps that need to be taken before they can use it.

Adding Welsh law to the guide

The Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 which came into force on 1 December 2022 has radically changed the rules that landlords need to follow when renting property to tenants (or ‘contract holders’ as we now need to call them).

The new Wales section of the guide goes through the various situations when landlords may want to evict in Wales and discusses the rules that apply.  So, if you are a landlord of property in Wales, you can work out

• If you can bring a claim for possession (sometimes there may be no suitable procedure), and
• If so what steps you need to take, and
• The notices that you need to serve first

You can always tell whether you are looking at the English or Welsh part of the guide, as there are little English or Welsh flags at the top of the page!

The guide also has links to member content where you can find out more if you are a Landlord Law member.