Documents relating to student occupations of PCL buildings and PCL's legal rights in preventing them.

Includes: correspondence (both internal and with Bartletts & Gluckstein, Crawley & de Reya Solicitors) regarding prevention of student occupations, Essex University's application to Court of Appeal to prevent student occupations, proposed guidelines for classes during occupation, legal rights of PCL; statement of policy on student occupations, 17 Nov 1981; press cutting regarding Essex University's partial ban of occupations; guidelines for occupation; relevant points from meeting of building supervisors to discuss occupations; main points of meeting of school registrars to discuss occupations, 6 Dec 1979; a policy to handle occupations to discrupt administration, by HG Jelf, secretary, 3 Jan 1980; note of advice regarding legal position in relation to student occupation of Polytechnic halls of residence; notice to be served to all illegal occupants; Criminal Law Act 1977 - chapter 45

Documents relating to the 1982 Student Union rent strike.

Includes: correspondence from the Students' Union to PCL and occupants of flats regarding payment of rent and potential eviction, summonses for possession at Northfield House, list of flats in receipt of first warning letters from solicitors, letters regarding flats now willing to pay, window replacement at halls of residence; sales ledger: student debtors, non-hall of residence - Northfield House [lists names, flat numbers, account numbers, total fees]; list of flats and types of occupants, for example on rent strike, squatters; list of occupants of Northfield House, Autumn 1982