⟡ The Doctrine of Ambush Service ⟡
Filed: 9 September 2025
Reference: SWANK/WESTMINSTER/AMBUSH-SERVICE
Download PDF: 2025-09-09_SWANK_Addendum_AmbushService.pdf
Summary: Service attempted during illness, without delivery, exposes intimidation in costume rather than law in action.
I. What Happened
On 8 September 2025 at 2:50pm, the same man who served the Emergency Protection Order on 23 June reappeared to attempt delivery. At that moment, Polly Chromatic was acutely ill with influenza (already notified to the local authority and contact centre). No papers were handed, posted, or left at reception. Service was not completed.
II. What the Document Establishes
Process Server Identified: Same individual, same pattern as the June ambush.
No Lawful Service: No delivery means no effect.
Exploitation of Illness: Attempt coincided with medical incapacity.
Pattern of Intimidation: Service as harassment, not procedure.
III. Why SWANK Logged It
This incident exemplifies the Local Authority’s hostility: turning simple service into coercive theatre. What should have been lawful notification was staged as intimidation during illness.
IV. Applicable Standards & Violations
Article 6 ECHR – Fair hearing obstructed by defective service.
Article 8 ECHR – Arbitrary interference with home and family.
Article 3 ECHR – Illness exploitation as degrading treatment.
Article 14 ECHR – Disabled parent discriminated against.
Equality Act 2010, ss.19 & 20 – Failure to accommodate disability/illness.
UNCRC Articles 3 & 16 – Best interests and privacy ignored.
UNCRPD Articles 5 & 23 – Non-discrimination and family respect violated.
ICCPR Article 17 – Arbitrary interference with home and correspondence.
ECtHR, McCann v UK (2008): Service must be fair; ambush is not.
ECtHR, Bărbulescu v Romania (2017): Interference must be proportionate; intimidation is not.
Bromley, Family Law (15th ed., p.640): Consent by coercion or error is void; ambush during illness is both.
Amos, Human Rights Law (2022): Article 6 & 8 proportionality requires necessity and justification; here, neither exists.
V. SWANK’s Position
This is not service.
This is harassment in legal costume.
We do not accept ambushes as lawful procedure.
We reject coercion masquerading as service.
We will document each defective delivery until intimidation ceases.
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