⟡ ADDENDUM: ON PRE-HEARING “DEALS” & PROCEDURAL COERCION ⟡
Filed: 28 September 2025
Reference: SWANK/WESTMINSTER/PROCEDURAL-COERCION
Download PDF: 2025-09-28_Core_PC-170_WestminsterCouncil_PreHearingDeals_ProceduralCoercion.pdf
Summary: Westminster’s representatives continue to treat litigation as negotiation theatre, attempting to convert judicial process into private transaction — coercing concessions in corridors to avoid the light of record.
I. What Happened
Before multiple hearings, the Local Authority’s legal team approached the Applicant — a litigant in person — with “informal offers” designed to bypass judicial scrutiny.
Each approach attempted to extract procedural or factual concessions off-record, implying that formal resistance would “look bad in court.”
These episodes represent a sustained attempt to privatise public justice through pressure and performance — replacing lawful process with emotional blackmail.
II. What the Document Establishes
• Westminster’s primary concern is narrative management, not legal compliance.
• Such tactics constitute procedural coercion, not negotiation.
• They exploit power imbalance and weaponise formality against transparency.
• Each approach reflects a fear of judicial daylight and a contempt for due process.
• The Applicant’s refusals are not “non-cooperation” but lawful resistance to off-record manipulation.
III. Why SWANK Logged It
• To expose the cultural decay of litigation into theatre.
• To affirm that justice cannot be bartered outside the transcript.
• To preserve the evidentiary record of coercive administrative conduct.
• Because the corridor deal is the graveyard of accountability.
IV. Applicable Standards & Authorities
• Article 6 ECHR – Right to a fair and public hearing.
• Article 8 ECHR – Family life cannot be interfered with in secrecy.
• Equality Act 2010 §§20, 29, 149 – Disabled litigants entitled to procedural equity.
• Bromley, Family Law (15th ed.) – Safeguarding authority must never be used coercively.
• Amos, Human Rights Law – Administrative transparency is the spine of open justice.
• Human Rights Act 1998 s.6 – Public bodies must act compatibly with Convention rights.
V. SWANK’s Position
This is not “informal discussion.”
This is negotiated coercion, accessorised with faux civility.
SWANK does not negotiate in corridors.
We decline to dilute truth for administrative comfort.
We record every whisper that fears the microphone.
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