Published : 2025-09-24

Criminal Law Aspects of the Activities of So-Called Debt Collection Agencies

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The author analyses the criminal law implications of the activities undertaken by so-called debt collection agencies, particularly in the context of their tenant negotiation or mediation services. These services are designed to achieve the voluntary vacating of residential premises by allegedly dishonest tenants, as per the agencies’ predetermined objectives. The services offered by such agencies present an alternative and, consequently, a competing option to the standard judicial procedure for obtaining an order to vacate, abandon, and surrender residential premises to the rightful owner or occupant. While the negotiations or mediations conducted by these agencies, leading to the voluntary vacating of premises, may initially appear unproblematic, there are well-founded concerns that such practices may operate at the fringes of legality or even exceed established legal boundaries.

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unlawful eviction, debt collection agencies, tenant negotiations, tenant protection



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Roczniki Nauk Prawnych · ISSN 1507-7896 | eISSN 2544-5227 | DOI: 10.18290/rnp

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