Labour abolishing Section 21 from day one?
“Abolish Section 21 from day one” I’m assuming Labour would use ‘COVID style special powers’ to do this, as primary legislation would take us into next year.
Question – would abolishing, include cases where the S21 legal process has already been started? I imagine some of these will have been running for over a year, where the Landlord could have spent a fortune in legal costs.
What about where a court has granted possession under the current S21 law, but bailiffs have not evicted – would those be overturned?
I was no fan of the Tory’s Renters Reform Bill, but at least it clarified various grounds for eviction BEFORE S21 was removed.
To simply remove S21 without any other changes will lead to a long period of uncertainty until Labour’s new Rental Act becomes law.
John
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