Legal action is being taken to halt the eviction of asylum seekers from their homes in Glasgow.

Home Office housing provider Serco has issued notices to 330 overstaying tenants ordering them to leave their flats.

At least 100 of them have already been granted refuge in the UK - despite earlier claims - and many face homelessness.

The Govan Law Centre is seeking an interdict on behalf of one of the 330 - a woman living in the south side of Glasgow - and hopes to halt her eviction.

Legal arguments are due to be heard at the Court of Session in Edinburgh on Tuesday.

Meanwhile, Glasgow City Council has said it could use special powers to subvert the law to allow it to help the asylum seekers facing homelessness.

The council is not allowed to support people whose asylum applications have been rejected.

However, council leader Susan Aitken believes it may be possible to use the General Power of Wellbeing - a section of the Local Government Act which allows councils to do whatever they think is appropriate for the welfare of their citizens - to supersede that rule.

"We need to look at it very carefully if we can use our General Power of Wellbeing to support a wider range of people who find themselves essentially being made destitute as a consequence of UK Government policy," she told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme.

"Glasgow City Council will step up and we will support vulnerable people where we possibly can.

"But what we really need is a change in UK Government policy."

Serco has already sent notices to six of the 230 people whose asylum applications have been rejected warning their locks will be changed on Monday.

It has no responsibility to house asylum seekers once their applications have been determined by the Home Office.

Those whose applications are rejected no longer receive support but cannot be deported while they appeal the Home Office's decision. Around half of asylum decisions are overturned on appeal.

Serco claims it has spent £1m housing the 330 overstaying asylum seekers free of charge - in some cases for several months after their applications were decided.

In response to widespread criticism from charities, politicians, and the Church of Scotland, chief executive Rupert Soames said that over the next month Serco will issue no more than ten lock-change notices a week.

No families with children will be locked out, he said, and everyone issued with a letter will have "exhausted their appeal process and no longer have the right to remain in the country". Around a third of Serco's overstaying tenants are families.

On Wednesday, two Afghan asylum seekers began a hunger strike outside Serco's offices in Glasgow.