“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

Chromatic v Westminster & Others On the Transatlantic Implications of Local Authority Retaliation


Audit of Unlawful Removals, Retaliatory EPOs, and the International Dimension of Child Welfare Misuse

Metadata

  • Filed: 18 August 2025

  • Reference: SWANK Addendum – Audit/EPO/Embassy

  • Filename: 2025-08-18_SWANK_Addendum_AuditEPO_EmbassyEscalation.pdf

  • Summary: How a lawful Audit Demand begat a retaliatory EPO, now laid before the U.S. Embassy, ensuring Westminster’s misconduct is no longer a provincial embarrassment but a diplomatic incident.

I. What Happened

A mother issued an Audit Demand (6 June 2025), requesting statistics on Westminster and RBKC’s unlawful removals.
A lawful follow-up was filed (16 June 2025).
Within days, an Emergency Protection Order was sought (23 June 2025), not to protect children, but to protect the Local Authority from scrutiny.

The children in question? Four U.S. citizens.
The consequence? A safeguarding measure transfigured into an act of state retaliation.

II. What the Complaint Establishes

  • That Westminster regards oversight as a threat, not a safeguard.

  • That a lawful Audit Demand triggered not transparency but seizure — of children, not documents.

  • That the Local Authority escalated the matter beyond its borough borders, transforming municipal misconduct into an international rights violation.

III. Why SWANK Logged It

Because the Embassy must now witness what Westminster hoped to keep parochial:
that safeguarding law has been inverted into a disciplinary weapon.
Because every child removed under these tactics carries not merely a case number, but a passport.

IV. Violations

  • Children Act 1989 – EPO powers abused for retaliation.

  • Article 8 ECHR – violation of family life rights.

  • Equality Act 2010 – discrimination linked to disability disclosures.

  • UNCRC, UNCRPD, Hague Convention – violations of international child and disability protections.

  • Vienna Convention on Consular Relations – failure to respect the rights of U.S. citizen minors.

V. SWANK’s Position

Westminster has elevated its misconduct into a diplomatic offence.
Where once it was a borough scandal, it is now an international grievance.
Where once it was an audit request, it is now a test of how far the United States tolerates retaliation against its childrenabroad.

Judicial Snobbery Closing

This addendum confirms what Westminster failed to predict:
that the seizure of children as a shield against disclosure does not bury misconduct — it internationalises it.
SWANK ensures it is written, filed, and archived in gold ink.

✒️ Polly Chromatic
Founder & Director, SWANK London Ltd


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