⟡ The Accessibility Gown — in Reasonable Adjustment Silk ⟡
Filed: 10 October 2025
Reference: SWANK/ALL-AGENCIES/DISABILITY-ACCESS
Download PDF: 2025-10-10_Core_AllAgencies_AccessibilityGown.pdf
Summary: A sweeping witness statement stitched from ten institutional failures, tailored in lawful silk, and lined with the luminous thread of equality.
I. What Happened
A mother wrote — clearly, consistently, and in good faith.
The institutions replied — noisily, incoherently, and in breach of law.
What followed was not a misunderstanding but a misconstruction: an entire public sector unbuttoned before the Equality Act, revealing the carelessness of its seams.
Guy’s and St Thomas’ embroidered falsity into its medical records.
Westminster and RBKC hemmed discrimination into policy.
Social Work England accessorised negligence with silence.
And the Courts, meanwhile, wore procedural neutrality like an ill-fitted coat.
II. What the Statement Establishes
• Written communication is not a preference — it is a medical necessity.
• Each agency’s refusal to comply was not an oversight but a pattern of retaliation.
• Disability law, once stitched for protection, was repurposed as decorative rhetoric.
• The Applicant’s calm insistence on writing became her crime of style: too formal, too precise, too composed.
III. Why SWANK Logged It
Because this is not a mere witness statement; it is a couture complaint.
Every paragraph is a pleat of patience.
Every exhibit a button sewn with exasperation.
The Accessibility Gown belongs in the archive not for what it claims, but for how it refuses to fray.
SWANK preserves this piece to demonstrate the aesthetic of endurance — that accessibility, when denied, transforms into art, and that bureaucracy, when exposed, is nothing but loose stitching pretending to be structure.
IV. Violations
• Equality Act 2010 – ss.20–21 & 149: failure to provide and respect reasonable adjustments.
• Children Act 1989 – s.22(3)(a): failure to maintain accurate, accessible records.
• Human Rights Act 1998 – Articles 6 & 8: obstruction of fair process and family correspondence.
• Professional Codes of Conduct (SWE, NHS) – breached beyond repair.
V. SWANK’s Position
Accessibility is the hemline of justice: invisible until torn.
This gown — meticulously assembled across ten exhibits — is not a plea for sympathy but a demand for proportion.
Let the record reflect that silence is not non-engagement, and that the pen, when wielded by the disabled litigant, is sharper than any bureaucrat’s template.
Filed in the Mirror Court Division of Procedural Couture.
✒️ Polly Chromatic
Director, SWANK London Ltd
“We file what others forget — and we do it in Reasonable Adjustment Silk.”