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Recently Tried in the Court of Public Opinion

Chromatic v. Westminster: On the Refusal of Email and the Theatre of Defective Service


⟡ The Doctrine of Procedural Hostility ⟡

Filed: 9 September 2025
Reference: SWANK/WESTMINSTER/PROCEDURAL-HOSTILITY
Download PDF: 2025-09-09_SWANK_Addendum_ProceduralHostility.pdf
Summary: Westminster’s refusal of email service exposes hostility disguised as procedure and obstructs access to justice.

I. What Happened

Since June 2025, Polly Chromatic has repeatedly consented to service by email at director@swanklondon.com. Westminster refused, instead relying on hostile process server ambushes:

  • 23 June 2025: EPO served in person, no email copy provided.

  • July–August 2025: Repeated offers of email service ignored.

  • 8 September 2025: Process server attempted service during acute illness; no email sent.

  • 9 September 2025: Package shoved through door in defiance of building regulations; again, no email copy.

II. What the Document Establishes

  • Reasonable Request Ignored: Consent to email service denied without justification.

  • Defective & Hostile Service: Ambush deliveries substituted for lawful process.

  • Obstruction of Fairness: Access to justice obstructed for a litigant in person.

  • Boundary Violations: Service practices mirror Westminster’s wider hostility and disregard for rules.

III. Why SWANK Logged It

This refusal exemplifies how bureaucracy weaponises procedure into harassment. What should be the simplest act — sending an email — was twisted into intimidation, illness exposure, and procedural sabotage.

IV. Applicable Standards & Violations

  • Article 6 ECHR – Right to a fair hearing obstructed.

  • Article 8 ECHR – Family life disrupted by hostile service.

  • Article 3 ECHR – Ambush during illness as degrading treatment.

  • Article 13 ECHR – No effective remedy when electronic service is denied.

  • Article 14 ECHR – Indirect discrimination: disabled parent denied accessible adjustment.

  • Equality Act 2010, ss.19 & 20 – Failure to provide reasonable adjustments.

  • UNCRPD Article 9 – Right to accessible communication.

  • UNCRC Articles 9 & 16 – Children’s contact and family privacy undermined.

  • ICCPR Article 17 – Arbitrary interference with home and correspondence.

  • Golder v UK (1975) – Access to court must be practical and effective.

  • Bromley, Family Law (15th ed., p.640): Safeguarding powers cannot be manufactured by procedural error; here, refusal of email service is error itself.

  • Amos, Human Rights Law (2022): Proportionality under Articles 6 and 8 requires necessity and justification; refusal of email has neither.

V. SWANK’s Position

This is not procedure.
This is harassment in the theatre of service.

  • We do not accept refusal of email as lawful.

  • We reject ambush and intimidation as substitutes for due process.

  • We will document every defective delivery until accessibility is enforced.

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