📎 2025-05-30_SWANK_Referral_BSB_LegalMisconduct_MinistryOfMoistureBrief.pdf
⟡ “If a Barrister Helps Cover Up a Mold Factory, Call the Ombudsman. But Not Us.” ⟡
This Wasn’t Professional Oversight. It Was a Regulatory Dodge Framed in Template Politeness.
Filed: 30 May 2025
Reference: SWANK/BSB/REFERRAL-DEFLECTION-MINISTRYOFMOISTURE
Response from the Bar Standards Board to the investigative brief “The Ministry of Moisture,” dismissing regulatory inquiry into legal complicity in safeguarding misuse and deferring responsibility to other bodies.
I. What Happened
On 28 May 2025, Polly Chromatic submitted an investigative brief to the Bar Standards Board (BSB), detailing:
Barrister complicity in the misuse of safeguarding
Procedural misconduct during family court hearings
Legal support for evidence suppression and discriminatory frameworks
The broader institutional culture of silence around mold exposure and housing-related neglect
On 30 May 2025, BSB replied with:
A generic acknowledgement of their remit
A declaration that they cannot investigate anything already seen by a court
A referral to the Legal Ombudsman and Judicial Conduct Investigations Office (JCIO)
No comment on systemic misconduct, legal ethics breaches, or professional duties
II. What the Complaint Establishes
The BSB explicitly refused to investigate barristers involved in discriminatory court conduct
The referral letter displays regulatory minimalism, asserting structural limits over ethical urgency
There was no request for documentation or willingness to assess the brief on its own legal merit
The institution designed to uphold barrister standards defaulted to “we don’t do that here”
This wasn’t a response. It was a jurisdictional shrug dressed in formatting.
III. Why SWANK Logged It
Because when the body that governs barristers refuses to examine ethical breaches by barristers, that is not neutrality — it is collusion by design.
Because redirecting a complaint about regulatory rot to “another office” is not resolution — it is institutional laundering.
Because “we can’t re-litigate” isn’t a legal principle — it’s a license to ignore corruption already rubber-stamped by process.
IV. Violations
Legal Services Act 2007 – Failure to uphold regulatory objectives of transparency and public confidence
BSB Handbook, Core Duty 5 – Not addressing barristers supporting abuse of power
Equality Act 2010 – No response to legal disability discrimination
Human Rights Act 1998, Article 6 & 13 – Denial of accessible remedy through regulatory dismissal
UNCRPD Article 13 – Failure to support accountability in legal proceedings involving disabled individuals
V. SWANK’s Position
This wasn’t regulatory review. It was institutional indifference packaged as process limitation.
This wasn’t a reply. It was a gate with no handle, guarded by template referrals.
This wasn’t a safeguard. It was a fortress for misconduct — archived now with contempt.
SWANK hereby logs this response as a velvet notice of professional cowardice.
You don’t have to protect barristers who protect abusers.
But you did.
And we’ve filed it.
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