In the Matter of a Litigant Who Couldn’t Speak but Still Made Law Listen

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🪞In the Court of Breath and Books

Polly Chromatic v. The Myth of Evasion

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⟡ SWANK London Ltd. Evidentiary Archive

Filed Date: 13 July 2025
Reference Code: SWANK-A09-VOICE-REPRESENTATION
Court File Name: 2025-07-13_Addendum_LegalRepresentation_VocalLimitations_LiPStudy.pdf
Summary: A formal position clarifying the Claimant’s legal representation status, vocal limitations due to disability, and her ongoing legal education as a litigant in person.

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I. What Happened

Polly Chromatic is not refusing representation.
She is waiting for one that reads.

She has contacted firms. She has provided bundles. She has endured condescension from solicitors unwilling to read more than a page. She has done all this while clinically unable to speak for long periods, her voice stripped away by sewer gas-induced asthma and muscle dysphonia — conditions documented, diagnosed, and ignored.

In the meantime, she studies.
She reads Bromley’s Family Law.
She footnotes. She annotates. She files.

And yet the myth persists: that she is somehow avoiding help, gaming the system, or uncooperative. It’s not uncooperation — it’s overqualification with a side of trauma.

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II. What the Complaint Establishes

1. The Claimant is open to legal representation — but not to uninformed substitution.

2. Her vocal impairments are clinically diagnosed, disabling, and aggravated by procedural repetition.

3. She is an active legal learner, studying statutory frameworks and case law to comply and participate meaningfully.

4. Repetition, re-explaining, and disregard of previous filings constitute procedural harm.

5. Her position is grounded in lawful rights and informed limitations — not defiance.

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III. Why SWANK Logged It

Because disability is not delay.
Because studying family law while fighting to keep your family is not arrogance — it’s grace under siege.
Because no one should be asked to repeat their pain to professionals too lazy to read it.
Because a woman who can’t breathe shouldn’t have to shout to be heard.

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IV. Violations (Implied or Risked)

• Equality Act 2010 – Failure to accommodate communication impairments

• Children and Families Act 2014, Part 3 – Inadequate recognition of disability

• ECHR, Article 6 & Article 8 – Fair trial and family life rights impeded by failure to accommodate

• Court Duty of Fair Process – Procedural burdens imposed disproportionately on disabled litigants

As Bromley’s Family Law (11th Ed., p. 612) reminds us:

“The court has a continuing obligation to ensure the process remains fair and accessible to all parties, especially where a litigant’s capacity is affected by disability, trauma, or procedural fatigue.”

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V. SWANK’s Position

Polly Chromatic is not evading the system. She is educating herself to survive it.
She is not resisting solicitors. She is demanding that they read.
She is not avoiding responsibility. She is rewriting what responsibility looks like — in citations, filings, and footnoted breath.

And she will keep filing, with or without a voice, until the court system realises that accessibility is not optional.

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Filed by: Polly Chromatic
Director, SWANK London Ltd.
📍 Flat 37, 2 Porchester Gardens, London W2 6JL
📧 director@swanklondon.com
🌐 www.swanklondon.com
Not edited. Not deleted. Only documented.

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