⟡ Re: The Jurisprudence of Procedural Theatre ⟡
A dispassionate chronicle of how law becomes performance when accountability is optional.
Filed: 1 July 2025
Reference: SWANK/ROYALCOURTS/CMH-STATEMENT/2025
📎 Download PDF – 2025-07-01_StatementOfPosition_CMH_Hearing.pdf
Position statement cataloguing disability discrimination, procedural breaches, and retaliatory removal.
I. What Happened
On 23 June 2025, four U.S. citizen children were removed from their mother by an Interim Care Order conferred in absentia. The applicant, medically incapable of safe attendance, had repeatedly requested written communication and accommodations for her disabilities—Eosinophilic Asthma, Muscle Dysphonia, and PTSD—requests which were met not with compliance but with procedural expedience. A Children’s Guardian was unavailable; instructions were solicited from an uninvolved professional. The ensuing process resembled not a hearing but a ceremony of predetermined dispossession.
II. What the Complaint Establishes
That safeguarding powers were mobilised as a reactive stratagem shortly after civil litigation was filed.
That the applicant’s disabilities were disregarded with a composure only possible when the procedural optics are more important than the legal substance.
That four children were subjected to abrupt removal without a credible transition plan for medical, psychological, or emotional safety.
That the Guardian function was reallocated by convenience, eroding the neutrality essential to legitimacy.
That each procedural shortcoming was treated as a tolerable imperfection rather than a systemic failure.
III. Why SWANK Logged It
Because no family court should be permitted to confuse ceremony with substance. Because the habit of procedural disregard is not a quirk of administration but an architecture of harm. Because there must be a record—meticulous, unflinching—of the disparity between lawful process and institutional theatre.
IV. Violations
Children Act 1989 (Sections 1 and 34—paramountcy of welfare and contact)
Article 8 ECHR (Right to family life—routinely suspended)
Article 3 ECHR (Freedom from degrading treatment—breached by indifference)
Equality Act 2010 (Failure to accommodate disability)
Family Procedure Rules (Requirements of fairness and participation)
V. SWANK’s Position
This was not safeguarding. It was procedural theatre rendered with the conviction of actors who know no one will critique the script.
We do not accept the aesthetic of due process as an alibi for unexamined harm.
We will document every performance—implacable, unimpressed, and jurisdictional.
⟡ This Dispatch Has Been Formally Archived by SWANK London Ltd. ⟡
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