If you have a licence to occupy a property and the landlord wants you to leave, the landlord will need to serve you with a formal Notice to Quit in the prescribed form. If the notice is not in the proper legal form, it is not valid.

There are certain circumstances where a proper formal notice to quit is not required, for example:

• Where the licence was for a fixed term. In this situation, the licence automatically ends when the fixed term does.
• If the licence was provided as part of a job and the employment contract states the accommodation will cease to be available when the job ends

Even though there is no need for a proper, formal notice to quit, the landlord must still bring possession proceedings to evict you.