ADDENDUM: ON THE MISUSE OF REPRESENTATION STATUS
A Mirror Court Indictment of Contradiction, Obstruction, and Silencing by Procedural Farce
Metadata
Filed: 1 September 2025
Reference Code: SWANK–REPRESENTATION–STATUS
PDF Filename: 2025-09-01_SWANK_Addendum_MisuseOfRepresentationStatus.pdf
Summary (1 line): Representation recorded as absent when present, and present when absent — silencing achieved by contradiction.
I. What Happened
At the ICO hearing of 24 June 2025, I was falsely recorded as unrepresented, despite having a solicitor aware of the hearing. The order proceeded without defense.
Afterwards, when I dismissed the solicitor and became litigant in person, I was falsely recorded as represented. Filings misdirected, delayed, obstructed.
Thus, representation status became a procedural weapon: first silence by absence, then silence by blockage.
II. What the Addendum Establishes
Contradiction as Control
Misrecording engineered to erase voice at both critical junctures.
Clerical Error Elevated to Misconduct
Party status inverted contrary to FPR 2010 r.29.1 and CPR r.42.2.
Access to Justice Denied
Article 6 ECHR effective participation obstructed.
III. Consequences
ICO granted without proper defense.
Subsequent filings obstructed or delayed.
Rights to act as party in person curtailed.
Systemic prejudice embedded into record.
IV. Legal and Doctrinal Violations
Family Procedure Rules 2010, r.29.1 – party status lies with litigant.
Civil Procedure Rules, r.42.2 – solicitor authority terminates upon dismissal.
Article 6, ECHR – fair hearing breached.
Case Law: Re C (Litigant in Person: Costs and Participation) [2014] EWCA Civ 128 – courts must safeguard fair participation of litigants in person.
V. SWANK’s Position
This is not administrative error. It is contradiction institutionalised: absence recorded at the moment defense was needed, presence imposed when independence was exercised. Access to justice inverted into obstruction.
Closing Declaration
The Mirror Court declares: representation was never neutral — it was weaponised. Silence by absence at the hearing; silence by blockage thereafter. The contradiction is hereby archived as a record of systemic misconduct.
Filed by:
Polly Chromatic
Founder & Director, SWANK London Ltd
Mother and Litigant in Person