Chromatic v Historical Amnesia [2025] SWANK 624 — “When They Were Warned, and Took Them Anyway”

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🪞The Law That Warned Them

Filed Under: Historical Precedent, Ignored
Where Early Intervention Was Warned Against — But Happened Anyway

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Filed by: Polly Chromatic
Filed date: 13 July 2025
Reference Code: SWANK-E17-BROMLEYTHRESHOLD
Court File Name: 2025-07-13_Addendum_Bromley624_EarlyInterventionViolation.pdf
Summary: The legal page Westminster should have read — and didn’t.

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I. What Happened

On 23 June 2025, Westminster Children’s Services removed all four of my children under an Emergency Protection Order (EPO) with no notice, no threshold, and no evidence of imminent risk.
It was not safeguarding. It was retaliation dressed as urgency.

This removal followed:

• A discredited intoxication allegation

• A history of lawful complaints and civil filings

• Multiple warnings that state overreach would be challenged and documented

Prior to the EPO, I emailed social worker Kirsty Hornal directly, referencing the infamous Orkney case — where children were wrongly removed based on unfounded abuse claims. That scandal is not forgotten. It is taught in safeguarding training, cited in legal textbooks, and written into precedent.
And still — she proceeded as though it never happened.

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II. What the Complaint Establishes

On page 624 of Bromley’s Family Law (12th ed), the principle is unambiguous:

“If intervention is too early then family life will be needlessly violated to the detriment of the child and the family.”

This is not advisory.
This is judicial instruction.

Bromley cites:

• The Cleveland crisis – 200+ children wrongly removed

• The Orkney case – fabricated claims, overturned removals

• Rochdale v A [1991] – condemnation of premature intervention

These are not obscure footnotes.
They are cornerstone case studies in safeguarding ethics.

I emailed Kirsty Hornal these facts — before the EPO was issued.
She was warned.
She was documented.
She was reminded of the legal history.
And she chose ignorance over precedent.

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III. Why SWANK Logged It

Because legal history exists for a reason.
Because knowledge is not a luxury for mothers under attack — it’s a shield.
Because when state agencies remove children after being warned of precedent, they are not safeguarding — they are staging justification.

This page from Bromley is a time capsule of safeguarding abuse.
Its warnings were not hidden — they were emailed, quoted, filed.

Westminster did not fail to consult it.
They failed because they ignored it.

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IV. Violations Documented

• Children Act 1989 – Misuse of Section 44 (no lawful threshold)

• ECHR Article 8 – Family life violated without necessity or proportionality

• Procedural Fairness – No consultation, no assessment, no legal grounds

• Institutional Recklessness – Proceeding despite legal warnings

• Disregard for Precedent – Orkney, Cleveland, and Rochdale all ignored

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V. SWANK’s Position

You cannot remove children based on a feeling.
You cannot proceed when you've been warned by both precedent and parent.
And you cannot call it lawful when even Bromley’s textbook told you not to do it.

This page is now filed, annotated, referenced, and cited:

• In court

• In misconduct referrals

• In the SWANK archive

• And soon — in legal history, where it belongs

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