ETHICAL ACCOUNTABILITY V. SAFEGUARDING SELF-PRESERVATION
On the Retaliatory Nature of Westminster’s Interventions Against a Litigant-Mother with a Background in Systemic Oversight
📄 Filed by: SWANK London Ltd
Author: Polly Chromatic
Filed Date: 2 August 2025
Reference Code: SWANK/JUDICIAL/ETHICS-BACKGROUND-01
PDF Filename: 2025-07-28_SWANK_JudicialNote_EthicalAI_RetaliationBySafeguarding.pdf
Summary: A formal declaration of ethical expertise, professional scrutiny, and institutional retaliation — issued from one mother’s vantage at the gates of systemic collapse.
I. What Happened
The mother, a U.S. citizen and researcher in the field of ethical artificial intelligence, has been subjected to prolonged harassment, character discrediting, and unlawful interference by Westminster Children’s Services. Rather than respond to legitimate procedural concerns or lawful requests for transparency, the Local Authority launched an escalating series of retaliatory safeguarding actions — resulting in the traumatic and unjustified separation of her four medically vulnerable children.
II. What the Statement Establishes
This Judicial Note sets forth not a plea, but a record. A declaration that the mother’s conduct — systematic, literate, evidentiary — has been wholly consistent with her professional principles and legal rights. She does not obstruct; she archives. She does not evade; she insists on record. Her research in ethical AI, institutional transparency, and procedural integrity has become the very reason the institution now seeks to erase her authority.
III. Why SWANK Logged It
Because retaliation disguised as safeguarding is not a new phenomenon — but rarely is it so cleanly documented, nor so publicly exposed. Because when a disabled mother’s insistence on accountability results in the seizure of her children, the problem is no longer administrative. It is jurisprudential failure through aesthetic cowardice.
IV. Violations
Abuse of process and retaliation contrary to the Children Act 1989
Breach of Article 8 ECHR: family life and private correspondence
Procedural bias and safeguarding distortion in violation of public law principles
Discrimination contrary to the Equality Act 2010, including refusal to accommodate written communication needs
V. SWANK’s Position
When a mother with formal expertise in system ethics is accused of “non-engagement” for refusing to be complicit in unlawful safeguarding, it is not a welfare concern — it is performative bureaucratic revenge. Westminster's actions reflect not child protection, but a desperate institutional maneuver to protect itself from lawful oversight. The court must be shown what this really is: retaliation by proxy, using children as procedural shields.