“Though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still which she did not know. Her knowledge goes back only to the dawn of time. But if she could have looked a little further back… she would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor’s stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backward.” - Aslan, C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Recently Tried in the Court of Public Opinion

Re The Doctrine of Prolonged Silence


⟡ Ex Parte Incompetence: A Brief Treatise on the Custodial Eclipse ⟡
Wherein the state contrived to separate children from their mother, then forgot they existed.

Filed: 30 June 2025
Reference: SWANK/ROYALCOURTS/FAM-CONTACT-ENFORCEMENT-01
📎 Download PDF – 2025-07-03_Application_ContactEnforcementRequest.pdf
Urgent application demanding the restoration of contact with medically vulnerable children.

I. What Happened
On 23 June 2025, four American children were extracted under an Emergency Protection Order. In the ensuing days, no contact was arranged, no updates were provided, and no evidence was offered that the children’s asthma or trauma histories were being addressed. Repeated requests were met with bureaucratic indifference so absolute it felt almost avant-garde.

II. What the Complaint Establishes

  • That the state can remove children with startling alacrity and then simply fail to remember them.

  • That procedural formalities were performed with all the conviction of a damp cravat.

  • That prolonged medical discontinuity was treated as a regrettable footnote, rather than a safeguarding catastrophe.

  • That contact was neither refused nor arranged—merely suspended in a fog of institutional absentmindedness.

III. Why SWANK Logged It
Because the default posture of “We’ll tell you nothing, indefinitely” is not child protection. Because the systemic failure to distinguish between necessary intervention and performative opacity is not merely error—it is structural contempt. Because every precedent of unchallenged separation deserves a polished record of objection.

IV. Violations

  • Children Act 1989 (Section 34: Duty to promote contact)

  • Article 8 ECHR (Right to family life)

  • Article 3 ECHR (Freedom from degrading treatment)

  • Equality Act 2010 (Duty to accommodate disability in proceedings)

V. SWANK’s Position
This was not safeguarding. It was sequestration without candour.
We do not accept the normalisation of state silence as a proxy for child protection.
We will document every iteration—punctilious, archivally irrefutable.

⟡ This Dispatch Has Been Formally Archived by SWANK London Ltd. ⟡

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