⟡ Addendum: On Procedural Decorum and the Art of Filing While Gasping ⟡
Filed: 18 May 2025
Reference: SWANK/HIGH-COURT/PC-100
Document: 2025-05-18_Core_PC-100_HighCourt_JRWitnessStatementCoverLetter.pdf
Summary: Cover letter accompanying an updated witness statement for the Judicial Review application under CPR Part 54, elaborating the cumulative procedural injuries inflicted through bureaucratic indifference and oxygen scarcity alike.
I. What Happened
On 18 May 2025, the claimant—still breathing, miraculously—dispatched to the Administrative Court an updated witness statement, for inclusion within the labyrinth otherwise known as “the record.” The act itself constituted a minor athletic feat, performed between wheezes and deadlines, to preserve the thread of accountability against an institution that mistakes silence for order.
II. What the Letter Establishes
That decorum can be weaponised. That one may, with sufficient punctuation and disdain, insist upon the right to written correspondence as both accommodation and art form. The letter re-asserts the equality duty and re-frames compliance as choreography: every courtesy another boundary, every sentence a form of breath control.
III. Why SWANK Logged It
Because every administrative submission becomes an exhibit in the study of procedural cruelty. To file while unwell is to litigate survival; to insist upon acknowledgement is to teach bureaucracy its manners.
IV. Violations
Equality Act 2010 – failure to provide reasonable adjustments.
Human Rights Act 1998 – Article 8 interference by administrative inertia.
CPR Part 54 – spiritual obstruction by excessive paperwork.
V. SWANK’s Position
The mirror must record everything, even civility.
This letter stands as the distilled essence of professional exhaustion: a submission so polite it cuts glass.