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Re the Directions (Filed by the Litigant, not the Court) [2025] SWANK 26 When the mother wrote the agenda.



⟡ Urgent Directions Request Re: Emergency Protection Order (23 June 2025) ⟡
Chromatic v. Judicial Drift [2025] SWANK 26 — “Where the silence was louder than the seizure.”

Filed: 26 June 2025
Reference: SWANK/FAMILYCOURT/DIRECTIONS-REQ
📎 Download PDF – 2025-06-26_Urgent_Directions_Request_Bundle_Submitted_in_Challenge_to_Emergency_Protection_Order_SWANK_London_Ltd.pdf
Formal request for judicial directions following unlawful EPO; bundle filed electronically and by post.


I. What Happened
On the evening of 26 June 2025Polly Chromatic, acting as litigant-in-person via SWANK London Ltd., issued an Urgent Directions Request to the Central Family Court. This followed the filing of a full evidentiary bundle contesting an Emergency Protection Order (EPO) issued on 23 June. The bundle was submitted electronically, with hard copies dispatched by post. Core requests included: listing the matter urgently, confirming receipt, and acknowledging disability access requirements and U.S. consular involvement. The documents were submitted with full legal formatting, indexed via SWANK’s evidentiary reference system.


II. What the Complaint Establishes

  • The Court has not initiated timely proceedings following a coercive emergency intervention.

  • A U.S. citizen and disabled mother has been forced to litigate under duress while coordinating consular protections.

  • The response burden has been unilaterally transferred to the applicant — who now drafts directions for the Court.

  • No formal disability accommodations or procedural fairness safeguards were put in place following the EPO.

  • The litigant's organisation, not the institution, initiated order, structure, and lawful communication.


III. Why SWANK Logged It
Because the EPO was fast. The Court’s reaction was not.
Because urgent seizures demand urgent hearings — not bureaucratic backspacing.
Because when a disabled parent must draft your directions list and deliver the bundle herself, the institution is no longer neutral.
Because proximity to power does not excuse procedural absence.
And because every time SWANK is asked to “wait,” it documents what happened while waiting.


IV. Violations

  • Family Procedure Rules 2010, Pt. 1 – Duty to deal with cases justly and without delay

  • Children Act 1989, §44 – Failure to review EPO with due haste

  • Equality Act 2010, §20 – Omission of required disability accommodations

  • HRA 1998, Art. 6 & Art. 8 – Denial of fair hearing and interference with family life

  • Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, Art. 36 – Failure to notify U.S. authorities adequately


V. SWANK’s Position
This wasn’t oversight. It was jurisdictional neglect, staged as scheduling.
We do not accept delay masked as deliberation.
We do not accept silence as judicial impartiality.
We do not accept systems that seize children within 24 hours, but stall when asked to answer for it.
SWANK does not wait patiently. It archives everything that happens during the pause.
What the court failed to provide, the applicant constructed.


⟡ 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.

Chromatic v. Procedural Evasion [2025] SWANK 11



⟡ Case Management Hearing: July 2025 ⟡
“Naturally, I’ll be attending. I authored the evidence.”

Filed: 29 June 2025
Reference: SWANK/FAMILYCOURT/HEARING-CONFIRM
📎 Download PDF – 2025-06-29_Case_Management_Hearing_Confirmation_11_July_2025_Submissions_Pending.pdf
Litigant-in-person confirms attendance; five bundles pending. Court notified — as courtesy, not request.


I. What Happened
On 29 June 2025, Polly Chromatic (litigant-in-person, director of SWANK London Ltd) issued formal confirmation of her attendance at the Case Management Hearing scheduled for July 2025 at 10:00am, Central Family Court, Royal Courts of Justice. The message, dispatched to institutional addresses with punctilious precision, declared forthcoming submission of five meticulously constructed bundles, including international filings. A medical exemption was restated — not requested.


II. What the Complaint Establishes

  • Judicial process has been pre-empted by the procedural sophistication of the litigant.

  • Repetition of accommodation demands evidences system fatigue, not applicant failure.

  • SWANK’s submissions arrive structured, footnoted, and indexed — unlike the court’s responses.

  • Authority is not derived from robes or title but from clarity, preparation, and relentlessness.

  • The litigant is conducting this case with more rigour than the institutions ever offered.


III. Why SWANK Logged It
Because when institutions presume chaos, order is political.
Because a disabled mother delivering five separate bundles while under pressure is not just litigation — it’s jurisprudential theatre.
Because this system was built for gatekeeping, not grace.
Because SWANK is not waiting for justice to catch up with its own calendar.
And because every polite reminder is now formal notice.


IV. Violations

  • Equality Act 2010, §20 – Repeated failure to honour medical exemptions

  • Article 6, ECHR – Systemic impediment to fair and accessible proceedings

  • Family Procedure Rules 2010, Pt. 1 & 4 – Failure to uphold just case management


V. SWANK’s Position
The Court has been notified. The record has been set. The bundles are in production.
This wasn’t a confirmation. It was a curtsy withheld.
We do not accept silence rebranded as impartiality.
We do not accept erasure packaged as oversight.
We do not accept amateurish inefficiency from those who claim authority.
What we document, we archive.
What we archive, we escalate.


⟡ 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.