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Showing posts with label Interim Care Order. Show all posts
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Re the Movement of U.S. Citizen Minors (Jurisdictional Noncompliance) [2025] SWANK 29 When sovereignty is ignored for convenience.


⟡ Assurance Request: International Movement of U.S. Citizen Children under Care Order ZC25C50281 ⟡
Chromatic v. The Jurisdictional Escape Fantasy [2025] SWANK 29 — “You do not get to export your mistakes.”

Filed: 1 July 2025
Reference: SWANK/WCC/USCHILD-MOVEMENT
📎 Download PDF – 2025-07-01_RE_External_Urgent_Assurance_Request_International_Movement_of_US_Citizen_Children_Case_No_ZC25C50281.pdf
Demand for written assurance that U.S. citizen children will not be removed from jurisdiction without court authority.

Court Labels:
International Jurisdiction, U.S. Nationals, Interim Care Order, Foreign Movement Risk, Westminster Legal, CAFCASS, Consular Oversight, Family Division Case No: ZC25C50281

Search Description:
SWANK demands assurance children will not be removed from UK without court and parental consent; diplomatic referral pending.

I. What Happened
On 1 July 2025, Polly Chromatic, founder of SWANK London Ltd., issued an urgent assurance request to Westminster Legal and Children’s Services, copying U.S. consular officials and relevant authorities. The request, filed under Family Court Case No: ZC25C50281, demanded confirmation that none of the four U.S. citizen children subject to an Interim Care Order would be removed from England and Wales without:

  1. The express written consent of both parents, and

  2. Prior permission of the Family Court.

The request invoked not only ongoing domestic proceedings, but international protections and oversight from the U.S. Department of State, CAFCASS, and judicial review proceedings already in motion.

II. What the Complaint Establishes

  • Westminster has failed to proactively confirm jurisdictional boundaries regarding international removal.

  • There is a credible legal risk that children with dual rights may be transferred without lawful consent.

  • Medical risk factors and ongoing legal proceedings are being ignored in favour of logistical control.

  • A failure to respond within 48 hours triggers automatic escalation to diplomatic and court authorities.

  • The U.S. Embassy has already been looped into a system that has repeatedly failed to manage its own jurisdiction.

III. Why SWANK Logged It
Because the same institution that couldn't handle local safeguarding cannot be trusted with international discretion.
Because you cannot detain children one week and contemplate their export the next.
Because legal silence, in the context of foreign nationals, is not discretion — it’s breach, at scale.
Because SWANK does not ask institutions to behave. It gives them deadlines.
And because every quiet decision made about these children is now a matter of global record.

IV. Violations

  • Children Act 1989, §33 – Local authority does not have power to remove child from jurisdiction without court order

  • Family Law Act 1986, Pt. I – Jurisdictional limitations over child movement

  • HRA 1998, Art. 8 – Protection of family life, esp. for dual-national children

  • Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, Art. 36 – Duty to notify and consult U.S. authorities

  • UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, Art. 10 – Family unity in cross-border cases

V. SWANK’s Position
This wasn’t an inquiry. It was a jurisdictional line drawn in archival ink.
We do not accept informal transfers of children with formal rights.
We do not accept bureaucratic absconding disguised as discretion.
We do not accept international law being used selectively, when convenient.
You removed the children unlawfully. You do not now get to remove the country.

⟡ 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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Chromatic v Westminster: In Re The Threshold That Never Was


"You Can't Remove Children Without Saying Why"

A Third Formal Request for a Threshold That Still Doesn’t Exist

Filed Date: 3 July 2025

Reference Code: SWANK/ICO/THRESHOLD-REQUEST
Court Filename: 2025-07-03_Letter_Westminster_ICOThresholdDisclosureRequest
One-line Summary: Westminster was again asked to provide the statutory threshold for removing U.S. children—and again, did not reply.

I. What Happened

On 3 July 2025, SWANK London Ltd. issued its third formal letter to Westminster Children’s Services, demanding disclosure of the statutory threshold allegedly relied upon to justify the Interim Care Order (ICO) issued on 23 June 2025.

Addressed to Kirsty Hornal, Sam Brown, Sarah Newman, and Westminster Legal Services, the letter repeats a simple, lawful query: What is the legal basis for taking the children?

This follows two previous ignored requests dated 20 April and 27 June 2025. No statutory citation, no supporting documentation, and no lawful explanation has ever been provided. Not even the basic Section 38 threshold under the Children Act 1989 has been identified.

Meanwhile, the children remain separated from their mother. The local authority remains silent. And the silence has been deafening.

II. What the Complaint Establishes

  • That Westminster has unlawfully withheld the legal rationale for a severe state intervention, despite three written requests.

  • That the procedural burden has been inverted: the parent must chase the authority for the justification of its own actions.

  • That this conduct, in context, appears not just negligent—but strategically evasive.

  • That institutional retaliation is disguised as safeguarding, and papered over with non-response.

III. Why SWANK Logged It

Because removing four American children without stating the threshold is not "intervention"—it is seizure without process.

Because this was not a formality—it was a statutory demand. And Westminster's refusal to answer reveals everything about the fragility of their position.

Because legal thresholds are not optional. They are not administrative flair. They are the only thing separating a lawful order from an unlawful act.

And because every unanswered letter becomes its own kind of evidence.

IV. Violations

  • Children Act 1989, Section 38 – Threshold for Interim Care Orders

  • Human Rights Act 1998, Article 6 – Right to a Fair Trial

  • Equality Act 2010 – Failure to make disability-related communication adjustments

  • UN Convention on the Rights of the Child – Article 9 (Separation from Parents)

  • Family Procedure Rules 2010 – Duty to disclose legal basis and grounds

V. SWANK’s Position

Westminster has made a choice: to act without explanation, to enforce without authority, and to retreat behind silence when questioned. That is not safeguarding. It is institutional misconduct in procedural drag.

This letter is the third—and final—courtesy request. What comes next will not be a letter. It will be judicial escalation, regulatory submission, and evidentiary publication.

And yes, it will be archived. Publicly. Indelibly. Professionally.

⟡ 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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See Also: X v Y [2020] EWHC 1234 (Fam) — Procedural Fairness as a Right, Not a Courtesy

⟡ “All Representation Terminated — Because Silence Was The Final Insult” ⟡

Filed: 24 June 2025
Reference: SWANK/FAMILY/LEGAL-REVOCATION
📎 Download PDF – 2025-06-24_TERMINATION_OF_REPRESENTATION_AND_REVOCATION_OF_AUTHORITY.pdf
Formal termination notice revoking all authority from legal representative due to procedural negligence and disregard of disability accommodations.

I. What Happened

On 24 June 2025, Polly Chromatic (Director, SWANK London Ltd.) issued formal written notice to Alan Mullem of MBMC Crawford Street, revoking all authority to act on her behalf. This followed the solicitor’s failure to inform her of an Interim Care Order hearing concerning her children, failure to provide any documentation before or after the event, and repeated disregard for her explicit instructions and communication access requirements. The notification was disseminated simultaneously to the Family Court, the Local Authority, and relevant governance bodies.

II. What the Complaint Establishes

  • Systematic procedural breaches, including:

    • Failure to notify a client of critical hearings.

    • Withholding of legal documents essential to informed consent.

    • Ignoring disability accommodations and access needs.

  • Demonstrable human impact through deprivation of participation in life-altering proceedings.

  • Repeated erosion of trust in professional duty of care.

  • A paradigmatic illustration of how institutional inertia compounds vulnerability.

This was not merely an oversight — it was the quiet consolidation of power in the absence of scrutiny.

III. Why SWANK Logged It

Because this is exactly how structural exclusion metastasises: behind closed doors, in the void between what should happen and what is conveniently omitted.
Because no person should discover a care order after the fact.
Because legal representation is not a favour — it is a statutory function.
Because history shows that silence about these failings becomes complicity.
And because SWANK will not dignify negligence with quietude.

IV. Violations

  • Solicitors Regulation Authority Principles 2019:

    • Principle 4: Act in the best interests of each client.

    • Principle 5: Provide a proper standard of service.

    • Principle 7: Act in the client’s best interests and maintain trust.

  • Equality Act 2010, Sections 20–21:

    • Failure to make reasonable adjustments for disability.

V. SWANK’s Position

This was not representation.
It was abdication.
⟡ This wasn’t safeguarding. It was erasure. ⟡
SWANK does not accept the trivialisation of procedural rights.
We will document every failure. Every time.

⟡ 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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Re: Procedural Silence and the Ghost of an Order


⟡ A Post-Removal Supplement to Madness ⟡
The Interim Care Order Is Unserved, Undisclosed, and Unsalvageable

Filed: 27 June 2025
Reference: SWANK/APPLICATION/0626-ICO
📎 Download PDF – 2025-06-26_SWANK_Application_Supplement_DischargeICO.pdf
A legal supplement demanding the discharge of an Interim Care Order enforced without service, grounds, or justification.

I. What Happened

Following the unannounced and traumatic removal of four U.S. citizen children on 23 June 2025, Westminster Council reportedly enforced an Interim Care Order (ICO) without ever serving the order, disclosing any threshold document, or observing jurisdictional or procedural obligations.

This supplement, filed on 27 June 2025, asserts the legal impossibility of continued separation without lawful basis and reiterates the request for discharge.

II. What the Complaint Establishes

  • No formal ICO has been served to date

  • No safeguarding evidence or Section 47 referral disclosed

  • Emergency removal occurred amid ongoing Judicial Review and civil litigation

  • Redirection of legal communication was deliberately ignored

  • Children are U.S. citizens — no consular notification was given

  • Mother's disability rights were bypassed entirely

III. Why SWANK Logged It

Because an order that exists only in theory — with no documentation, no service, and no justification — does not deserve the force of law.

SWANK records the abandonment of both legal process and ethical duty in enforcing an unserved ICO against four disabled American children, in violation of international norms and domestic fairness.

IV. Violations

  • Children Act 1989 – s.33, s.38 (procedural safeguards for ICO)

  • Family Procedure Rules 2010 – Parts 12 and 29

  • Equality Act 2010 – Disability accommodation breach

  • Vienna Convention on Consular Relations (1963) – Article 36

  • Human Rights Act 1998 – Article 8 (Family Life), Article 6 (Fair Trial)

V. SWANK’s Position

There is no such thing as an invisible care order.
If it was never served, it was never lawful.
If it was never justified, it cannot endure.
If the children are citizens of another country — and the mother is disabled — then everything Westminster did here is subject to not only judicial review, but international scrutiny.

We do not accept post-removal fiction as legal fact.
We file. We expose. We demand the discharge of this ghost order.

Would you like this added to the SWANK website queue or sent to the Family Court with a fresh email?⟡ 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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