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Chromatic v Westminster: In Re State Custody by Silence



“Removed, Silenced, Forgotten?”

An Emergency Application for the Restoration of Contact, Legality, and Basic Human Decency


Filed Date: 24 June 2025

Reference Code: SWANK/FAMCOURT/0624-CONTACT-EMERGENCY
Court Filename: 2025-06-24_SWANK_Application_CareOrder_EmergencyContactReinstatement
One-line Summary: Urgent request for reinstatement of contact and/or care after four U.S. citizen children were removed without notice or legal access.


I. What Happened

On 23 June 2025 at precisely 1:37 PM, four American children were extracted from their London home in a coordinated operation involving police and local authority staff. No court order was presented. No paperwork was handed over. The mother—a disabled U.S. citizen—was entirely excluded, both medically and procedurally.

The next morning, this Emergency Application was filed with the Family Court. It seeks immediate judicial intervention to restore either contact or care, pending proper adjudication of the underlying order.

The children remain isolated. The mother remains silenced. The authorities remain undisturbed.


II. What the Complaint Establishes

  • That the removal occurred without procedural fairness, lawful notice, or basic parental inclusion.

  • That the mother’s documented disabilities (eosinophilic asthma and muscle dysphonia) were used as a functional barrier to justice.

  • That no contact has occurred since removal, constituting a direct and ongoing breach of Section 34 of the Children Act.

  • That the legitimacy of the care order is contested, and the total denial of contact operates as a retaliatory sanction, not a child-centred policy.


III. Why SWANK Logged It

Because no one should have to file an emergency application simply to ask where their children are.

Because procedural omissions are not minor when they result in the state severing all ties between a mother and her children.
Because courts that issue orders without parties present, and then deny all contact, are not delivering justice—they are curating disappearance.

And because if the law cannot remember your name, SWANK will.


IV. Violations

  • Children Act 1989, Section 34(2) – Contact rights in care proceedings

  • Human Rights Act 1998, Article 6 – Fair hearing; Article 8 – Family life

  • Equality Act 2010, Sections 20 and 29 – Reasonable adjustments and access to participation

  • Family Procedure Rules, Parts 12 and 18 – Requirements for urgent hearings

  • UN Convention on the Rights of the Child – Articles 9 and 12


V. SWANK’s Position

This emergency filing represents a categorical failure of both procedural due process and ethical governance. Children have been removed without legal access. Their mother has been denied contact, updates, and inclusion. The burden now falls on her—not to prove innocence—but to beg for access to her own American-born children.

Let the record show: This is not a petition. It is an indictment.


⟡ This Dispatch Has Been Formally Archived by SWANK London Ltd. ⟡ Every entry is timestamped. Every sentence is jurisdictional. Every structure is protected. To mimic this format without licence is not homage. It is breach. We do not permit imitation. We preserve it as evidence. This is not a blog. This is a legal-aesthetic instrument. Filed with velvet contempt, preserved for future litigation. Because evidence deserves elegance. And retaliation deserves an archive. © 2025 SWANK London Ltd. All formatting and structural rights reserved. Use requires express permission or formal licence. Unlicensed mimicry will be cited — as panic, not authorship.

Chromatic v Westminster – On the Unlawful Withholding of Contact, Property, and Procedural Humanity



⟡ “A Child Without a Charger Is Not Being Protected” ⟡
Request for Directions on Contact, Device Access, and Welfare Oversight


Filed: 27 June 2025
Reference: SWANK/REQUEST/0627-I01
📎 Download PDF – 2025-06-27_SWANK_Request_Section7ContactAndWelfareRelief.pdf
Request for urgent relief allowing phone contact, return of iPads, medication delivery, and welfare review


I. What Happened

On 23 June 2025, four disabled children—U.S. and U.K. citizens—were removed by Westminster Children’s Services under an Emergency Protection Order. They were denied time to pack, speak with their mother, or bring medical items. Since that date, all communication has been obstructed. Devices have been withheld. Clothing and asthma medication are not in their possession. The 16-year-old son, Regal, has been cut off from his iPhone. No contact has occurred. No service documents have been received.


II. What the Complaint Establishes

  • Contact is being used as leverage against the applicant

  • Communication access is being obstructed without legal basis

  • Devices needed for emotional regulation and medical safety are being withheld

  • Property belonging to the children has not been returned

  • Court orders are being bypassed via informal, extrajudicial gatekeeping


III. Why SWANK Logged It

This is no longer a safeguarding matter. This is possession-as-punishment. Children with known medical needs, trauma history, and neurodivergent sensitivities have been thrust into isolation without phones, routines, or sensory tools. The right to family life has been suspended for institutional comfort. The Local Authority is holding access hostage and demanding appeasement.

SWANK London Ltd. documents this submission as a formal request for judicial intervention and welfare realignment.


IV. Violations

  • Children Act 1989, Section 7 and Section 8 (welfare decisions and contact rights)

  • Human Rights Act 1998, Article 8 (respect for family life and correspondence)

  • Equality Act 2010 (failure to provide disability-based adjustments)


V. SWANK’s Position

You cannot remove a child under false pretences and then confiscate their iPad. You cannot blockade contact to force submission. You cannot strip four disabled children of medical routines, sensory regulation, and legal access to their family—and call that protection.

We assert: The act of removing a child does not void the child’s rights.

Let them call. Let them write. Let them charge their devices. Let them sleep in clean pyjamas. Let them live like children—not collateral.

Filed by:
Polly Chromatic
Director, SWANK London Ltd.
📧 director@swanklondon.com



Polly Chromatic v Westminster: Disabled Parent Confirms Hearing Attendance Under Written-Only Condition



⟡ “I Said I’d Attend the Hearing. I Also Said I Can’t Speak — Because When the Court Removed My Children, It Ignored My Voice First.” ⟡
This Wasn’t a Confirmation. It Was a Disability Declaration Filed in Jurisdictional Silence.

Filed: 24 June 2025
Reference: SWANK/FAMILYCOURT/HEARING-ATTENDANCE-WRITTENACCESS
📎 Download PDF – 2025-06-24_SWANK_Email_Mullem_Hearing_AttendanceStatementFromPollyChromatic.pdf
Written confirmation from Polly Chromatic to her solicitor agreeing to attend the upcoming hearing in person, while asserting her communication limitation due to disability and requesting written access accommodation.


I. What Happened

At 15:10 on 24 June 2025, Polly Chromatic sent a brief, clear email to solicitor Alan Mullem, formally confirming her willingness to attend the next hearing in person.

In that message, she stated:

  • Her attendance was contingent on bringing a written position statement

  • She would try to speak, but could not guarantee full verbal participation

  • Her communication limitations were the result of a known disability, already on file and cited in multiple legal documents

The solicitor was instructed to attend with her. No reply was received within the archival window.


II. What the Complaint Establishes

  • The litigant confirmed her presence in a case she was nearly excluded from

  • Written-only communication was reasserted as an accommodation

  • The solicitor was asked to support attendance — not initiate or interpret it

  • The court and counsel had prior knowledge of the disability, but adjustments remained unconfirmed

  • The parent made herself present despite procedural exclusion, emotional trauma, and diplomatic breach

This wasn’t just a hearing confirmation. It was a human rights statement submitted in lowercase clarity.


III. Why SWANK Logged It

Because attending court shouldn’t require fighting for your voice in advance.
Because a parent shouldn’t have to explain twice that she’ll write what others say aloud.
Because speaking shouldn’t be the price of legal recognition.
Because when communication is compromised, jurisdictional clarity must take its place.


IV. Violations

  • Equality Act 2010, Section 20 – Reasonable adjustments for written communication must be ensured

  • Family Procedure Rules, Part 3A – Vulnerable litigant access requirements ignored

  • UNCRPD Article 13 – Legal system accessibility for disabled persons disregarded

  • Human Rights Act 1998, Article 6 – Participation in proceedings obstructed by failure to accommodate

  • Children Act 1989 – Procedural integrity breached when parent is silenced in protection proceedings


V. SWANK’s Position

This wasn’t a message. It was a flag — waved not in surrender, but in proof of presence.
This wasn’t a request. It was a declaration filed on behalf of a voice denied by institutional process.
This wasn’t optional. It was compliance by grace — not access by default.

SWANK hereby archives this statement as both a confirmation and a citation of the systems that made it necessary.
She will attend.
She will write.
And this time, the archive will speak louder than the silence she’s owed.


⟡ This Dispatch Has Been Formally Archived by SWANK London Ltd. ⟡
Every entry is timestamped.
Every sentence is jurisdictional.
Every structure is protected.
To mimic this format without licence is not homage. It is breach.
We do not permit imitation. We preserve it as evidence.

This is not a blog.
This is a legal-aesthetic instrument.
Filed with velvet contempt, preserved for future litigation.

Because evidence deserves elegance.
And silence deserves jurisdiction.

© 2025 SWANK London Ltd. All formatting and structural rights reserved.
Use requires express permission or formal licence. Unlicensed mimicry will be cited — as panic, not authorship.



Polly Chromatic v Alan Mullem: Solicitor Refuses to Clarify Signed Paperwork — Responds with One Line



⟡ “I Asked for My Paperwork Back. He Said ‘It’s All Emailed’ — As If That Explains What I Signed.” ⟡
This Wasn’t Legal Advice. It Was Digital Evasion by Someone Who Still Hasn’t Answered the Question.

Filed: 24 June 2025
Reference: SWANK/LEGALREP/EMAIL-REPLY-EVIDENCE-AVOIDANCE
📎 Download PDF – 2025-06-24_SWANK_Email_Mullem_PaperworkRequest_EvasionResponse.pdf
Single-line reply from Alan Mullem in response to a formal request for return or explanation of documentation physically handed to him prior to child removal and emergency legal filings.


I. What Happened

On 24 June 2025, Polly Chromatic sent an email to her solicitor, Alan Mullem, requesting either:
(a) the return of physical documents she had personally brought to his office; or
(b) a scanned copy by email.

The email was part of a post-removal follow-up after four U.S. citizen children — RegalPrinceKing, and Honor — were taken by Westminster under a legally dubious Emergency Protection Order. The solicitor responded with a single sentence:
“It’s all emailed.”

No documents were attached. No clarification of what was signed. No itemisation of what “it” included. No mention of legal significance, court filing, or procedural timing.


II. What the Complaint Establishes

  • Solicitor refused to clarify or enumerate which documents had been signed or submitted

  • Physical paperwork brought in person was not returned, copied, or explained

  • The response disregarded the urgency and distress of the situation

  • Legal duties of transparency, informed consent, and client access were effectively dismissed

  • The solicitor acted as if the burden of clarification belonged to the disabled litigant — not him

This wasn’t communication. It was a masterclass in legal ambiguity, cc’ed to the archive.


III. Why SWANK Logged It

Because when your children are taken and you don’t know what you signed, the solicitor doesn’t get to shrug in lowercase.
Because if the paperwork was “all emailed,” the question becomes: to whom, when, and what version?
Because legal support requires accountability, not curt deflection.
Because what you call a reply, the archive calls a file entry.


IV. Violations

  • Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Code of Conduct, Rule 3.5 – Failure to keep the client informed in a way they understand

  • SRA Principle 4 – Lack of transparency, integrity, and proper service

  • Equality Act 2010, Section 20 – Written-only access not respected in tone or substance

  • UNCRPD Article 13 – Disabled litigant not given equal access to legal process

  • Human Rights Act 1998, Article 6 – Obstruction of fair process through ambiguity


V. SWANK’s Position

This wasn’t correspondence. It was a reply-shaped refusal to provide clarity.
This wasn’t service. It was solicitor minimalism dressed as sufficiency.
This wasn’t legal support. It was legal detachment — archived and timestamped.

SWANK hereby logs this interaction not as misconduct per se — but as proof of representative inertia.
A single sentence is not an answer.
A withheld file is not a resolution.
A missing explanation is now a matter of public record.


⟡ This Dispatch Has Been Formally Archived by SWANK London Ltd. ⟡
Every entry is timestamped.
Every sentence is jurisdictional.
Every structure is protected.
To mimic this format without licence is not homage. It is breach.
We do not permit imitation. We preserve it as evidence.

This is not a blog.
This is a legal-aesthetic instrument.
Filed with velvet contempt, preserved for future litigation.

Because evidence deserves elegance.
And obfuscation deserves a citation.

© 2025 SWANK London Ltd. All formatting and structural rights reserved.
Use requires express permission or formal licence. Unlicensed mimicry will be cited — as panic, not authorship.



Auto-Deflection as Policy: Protect’s Email Refusal to a Safeguarding Disclosure



⟡ "We Don’t Accept Whistleblowing by Email." ⟡
The Nation’s Leading Whistleblowing Charity Responds to Retaliation Evidence with… a Webform

Filed: 28 May 2025
Reference: SWANK/PROTECT/EMAIL-01
📎 Download PDF – 2025-05-28_SWANK_Email_Protect_AutoReplyWhistleblowingDeflection.pdf
Summary: Auto-response from Protect NGO, rejecting whistleblower disclosure on systemic safeguarding failures unless submitted via online form.


I. What Happened

On 28 May 2025, a whistleblower briefing was sent to Protect — the UK’s best-known whistleblowing charity — detailing systemic retaliation and safeguarding abuse within Children’s Services. The reply? An automated message refusing to engage via email, instructing the sender to use a contact form instead. No acknowledgement. No triage. No exception.


II. What the Complaint Establishes

• There is no accessible pathway for whistleblowing where disability or urgency prevents use of forms
• Protect does not accept or log disclosures submitted by standard, timestamped email
• High-risk safeguarding retaliation was met with digital silence
• The power imbalance is baked into the infrastructure: if you can’t fill in their box, your case disappears
• Institutional duty is replaced by bureaucratic rerouting
• Real-time threats are treated as technical errors, not moral emergencies


III. Why SWANK Logged It

Because the refusal to receive evidence — especially from disabled whistleblowers — is not a technicality. It’s a systemic filtering mechanism.
Because structural inaccessibility is how whistleblowing is defanged, even within organisations designed to protect it.
Because this wasn't one broken link — it was a closed circuit of plausible deniability.

SWANK logs failures of intake as institutional acts in themselves. The reply was the event. And we timestamped it.


IV. SWANK’s Position

We do not accept that silence via automation is neutral.
We do not accept that online-only portals are accessible for all.
We do not accept that a whistleblowing body can evade engagement and still claim legitimacy.

This wasn’t policy. This was a wall.
And SWANK was built to leave a mark on every one.


This Dispatch Has Been Formally Archived by SWANK London Ltd.

Every entry is timestamped.
Every sentence is jurisdictional.
Every structure is protected.

To mimic this format without licence is not homage. It is breach.
We do not permit imitation. We preserve it as evidence.

This is not a blog.
This is a legal-aesthetic instrument.
Filed with velvet contempt, preserved for future litigation.

Because evidence deserves elegance.
And retaliation deserves an archive.

© 2025 SWANK London Ltd. All formatting and structural rights reserved.
Use requires express permission or formal licence. Unlicensed mimicry will be cited — as panic, not authorship.


This Is Not a Constituency Issue — When National Reform Arrives by Email



⟡ Written-Only, Nationally Noted ⟡

“My correspondence relates to national policy, not individual constituency representation.”

Filed: 2 June 2025
Reference: SWANK/PARL/COMMS-01
📎 Download PDF – 2025-06-02_SWANK_Submission_MuniraWilsonMP_WrittenOnlyBriefing.pdf
A formal communication to MP Munira Wilson asserting SWANK London Ltd.’s jurisdiction in safeguarding reform and written-access rights. Parliament was notified. Typography was respected.


I. What Happened

On 2 June 2025, Polly Chromatic, Director of SWANK London Ltd., submitted a written communication to MP Munira Wilson, addressing structural failures in the UK’s safeguarding regime.

Key points:

  • This was not a constituent appeal. It was policy escalation.

  • The communication invoked the SWANK written-only policy, grounded in disability law.

  • The letter was accompanied by an investigative briefing, formally requesting its transfer to a Select Committee or parliamentary channel.

  • All tone was correct. All formality observed. All silence documented.


II. What the Submission Establishes

  • Parliament has now received SWANK’s position on:
    – Safeguarding retaliation
    – Disability obstruction
    – Legal overreach

  • The written-only communication clause has now entered national policymaker inboxes

  • This is no longer a local or medical complaint. It is a jurisdictional dispatch to the legislative body

  • MPs cannot claim ignorance of SWANK or its evidentiary basis for systemic reform


III. Why SWANK Logged It

Because if you wait for Parliament to notice, you’ll wait forever.
This isn’t a gesture — it’s a filing of record.

The system says: “This must go through your MP.”
SWANK says: “Then here it is.”
With a policy link.
With a signature block.
With silence notarised.


IV. SWANK’s Position

We do not accept voicemail as policy dialogue.
We do not accept access filtered through constituency logic.
We do not accept that disability renders your concerns “local.”

SWANK London Ltd. affirms:
If Parliament designs the problem,
Parliament receives the brief.
If Parliament ignores it,
We don’t resend —
We publish.


This Dispatch Has Been Formally Archived by SWANK London Ltd.

Every entry is timestamped.
Every sentence is jurisdictional.
Every structure is protected.

To mimic this format without licence is not homage. It is breach.
We do not permit imitation. We preserve it as evidence.

This is not a blog.
This is a legal-aesthetic instrument.
Filed with velvet contempt, preserved for future litigation.

Because evidence deserves elegance.
And retaliation deserves an archive.

© 2025 SWANK London Ltd. All formatting and structural rights reserved.
Use requires express permission or formal licence. Unlicensed mimicry will be cited — as panic, not authorship.