Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

If you squat in a vacant property, does the law give you the house for free? Well, sort of

(Version anglaise seulement)

par Cathy Sherry, Professor in Law, Macquarie University

Nothing excites law students like the idea of a free house. Or alternatively, enrages them. It depends on their politics. As a result, academics condemned to teaching property law find it hard to resist the “doctrine of adverse possession”. The fact that a person can change the locks on someone else’s house, wait 12 years, and claim it as their own, makes students light up in a way that the Strata Schemes Management Act never will.

The idea of “squatters’ rights” has received a lot of media…

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