“Though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still which she did not know. Her knowledge goes back only to the dawn of time. But if she could have looked a little further back… she would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor’s stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backward.” - Aslan, C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

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Showing posts with label Emotional Distress. Show all posts
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R (Chromatic) v. The Case That Wasn’t Managed [2025] SWANK 36 What the CMH will hear — is what the children lived.


⟡ Statement of Position for Case Management Hearing, July 2025 ⟡
Chromatic v. The Nine Days of Silence [2025] SWANK 36 — “The system paused. The children did not.”

Filed: 2 July 2025
Reference: SWANK/FAMILYCOURT/CMH-POSITION-01
📎 Download PDF – 2025-07-02_StatementOfPosition_CMH.pdf
Filed ahead of the July CMH; documents emotional deterioration, medical neglect, and obstruction of contact since 23 June.

I. What Happened
On 2 July 2025, Polly Chromatic, acting as litigant-in-person, filed a Statement of Position with the Central Family Court in preparation for the upcoming Case Management Hearing scheduled for July 2025. The filing documents:

  • Nine consecutive days of contact denial following the EPO on 23 June

  • Cancellation of asthma-related medical care without consultation

  • Visible emotional collapse observed during first permitted contact on 2 July — especially in the youngest child

  • No information on medication status, placements, schooling, or emotional support for the children

  • Repeated obstruction of lawful contact and disregard for judicial expectations set at removal

This submission does not request sympathy. It demands jurisdictional recalibration.

II. What the Complaint Establishes

  • Children with chronic health conditions were subjected to an unbroken period of institutional isolation

  • Medical treatment plans were unilaterally cancelled, breaching both continuity of care and duty of consultation

  • Contact has been systemically suppressed, disguised as administrative backlog

  • Emotional trauma is no longer speculative — it is visible, recorded, and escalating

  • Nine days of silence in response to a care order constitutes not protection, but abandonment by design

III. Why SWANK Logged It
Because nine days without contact is not an administrative delay. It is harm.
Because cancelling asthma care is not a clerical error. It is medical negligence under procedural cover.
Because a system that removes children in one day and says nothing for nine is not broken. It is functioning exactly as built.
Because the youngest child is visibly collapsing — and no one in uniform seems to think that matters.
And because SWANK is not submitting a position. SWANK is submitting a correction to the record.

IV. Violations

  • Children Act 1989, §§22 & 34 – Duty to maintain contact and medical continuity

  • Human Rights Act 1998, Articles 3 & 8 – Protection from degrading treatment; right to family life

  • UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, Articles 9, 24 – Right to parental contact and access to healthcare

  • Equality Act 2010, §149 – Failure to prevent indirect discrimination against disabled parent and asthmatic children

  • Care Planning Regulations 2010 – Breakdown in placement review, parental communication, and contact integrity

V. SWANK’s Position
This wasn’t a procedural delay. It was systemic muting of a family in crisis.
We do not accept “case preparation” as an excuse for nine days of vanishing.
We do not accept contact that arrives only when the parent begs.
We do not accept the repackaging of silence as case management.
This case will be managed — but not by those who erased nine days from the record.
This filing is not a plea. It is an evidentiary landmark.

⟡ 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.
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When Support Becomes a Symptom: A Disabled Parent’s Refusal to Inhale Any More Institutional Harm


⟡ “Irresponsibility Disgusts Me.” ⟡
A refusal issued from exhaustion. A boundary made clinical. A diagnosis of institutional collapse.

Filed: 2 February 2025
Reference: SWANK/WCC/RBKC-FAILURE-IRRESPONSIBILITY-01
📎 Download PDF – 2025-02-02_SWANK_Refusal_WestminsterRBKC_InstitutionalIrresponsibility.pdf
A direct statement from Polly Chromatic to Westminster Children’s Services, RBKC, safeguarding officers, legal advisors, and NHS professionals, outlining the health consequences and emotional harm of ongoing institutional contact.

I. What Happened
On 2 February 2025, Polly Chromatic sent a direct message to local authorities and their legal affiliates after repeated unwanted communication escalated asthma symptoms, triggered panic attacks, and further destabilised her health. The message does not ask for understanding. It issues refusal — legally, medically, and emotionally. It clarifies that institutional failure is not abstract. It is daily, clinical, and lived.

II. What the Complaint Establishes

  • Ongoing contact is causing measurable respiratory harm

  • Emotional distress is not incidental — it is the result of sustained professional intrusion

  • Social workers have refused accountability while demanding emotional labour

  • Contact is not harmless when disability is known and ignored

  • The author’s disgust is not rhetorical — it is based in pattern, evidence, and exhaustion

III. Why SWANK Logged It
Because disgust is not the problem — irresponsibility is.
Because this wasn’t a misstep — it was the latest in a series of procedural violations framed as concern.
Because the refusal was not an emotional outburst.
It was a boundary delivered in plain language, to people who have spent years pretending not to hear.

This was not a meltdown.
It was a message.
And now it’s archived.

IV. Violations

  • ❍ Equality Act 2010 – Ignoring known disability accommodations, including verbal exemption

  • ❍ Article 8 ECHR – Disruption of private life and bodily autonomy via state intrusion

  • ❍ Medical Harm – Aggravation of asthma and trauma symptoms through unwanted contact

  • ❍ Safeguarding Misconduct – Repeated engagement without cause or benefit

  • ❍ Negligence in Professional Conduct – Social work as performance, not responsibility

V. SWANK’s Position
This was not dramatic.
This was forensic refusal from a disabled person documenting harm in real time.

The emotional cost was always medical.
The medical cost is now documented.
The names are known.
The silence is noted.

Polly Chromatic has nothing more to explain.
The archive will handle it from here.

⟡ 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.
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