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Instead of criminalising squatting, civil court processes for obtaining and enforcing eviction orders should be made far simpler and quicker: property owners who have had their premises squatted in will know how many weeks it can take to get the necessary orders through the courts, and then waiting for those orders to be enforced.
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Today in America, large parts of the police force work solely on enforcing evictions.
Many of them dated to 2009 during the height of the crisis, and the municipality said it waited five years before enforcing evictions.
While initially lax in enforcing evictions, National Guard troops eventually began to remove residents by force.
Dart has enjoyed a good run of publicity, beginning with his moratorium on enforcing evictions to his suing Craigslist over its erotic services ads to his recent handling of the Burr Oak cemetery scandal.
During his service, he was required by law to enforce eviction notices, but often helped those he evicted find other housing or gave them money himself, earning him the nickname "the poor man's judge".
In the latest legal battle, lawyers had argued that the council's decision to enforce eviction notices was unreasonable and a breach of human rights legislation.
But last week a High Court judge rejected the arguments and dismissed applications for a judicial review of the council's decision to enforce eviction notices.
Lord Justice Sullivan said there was no evidence likely to persuade appeal judges that the council's decision to enforce eviction notices was "unlawful".
But it was clearly an enforced eviction, prompted by her repeated gaffes and a series of revelations about her links to the former Tunisian president, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali. Justdays before the regime fell, and Mr Ben Ali fled, she had offered Tunisia the "savoir-faire" of French security forces in crowd control.
Even in the event that the courts eventually rule in favour of the land grantee, the local police are not always willing to enforce eviction notices.As the floodwaters recede, it becomes more apparent that last summer's disaster is not solely responsible for the hardships faced by Sindh's villagers.
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