⟡ A Civil Claim Walks into Family Court ⟡
Or, When the Archive Informed the Bench That It Too Had Receipts
Metadata
Filed: 4 July 2025
Reference Code: SWANK/REF/N1/FAMILYCOURT
Filed by: Polly Chromatic
Filed from: W2 6JL
Court File Name:2025-07-04_ZC25C50281_Reference_Filing_Related_Safeguarding_Matters_Polly_Chromatic.pdf
I. What Happened
On 4 July 2025, Polly Chromatic (professionally and procedurally known) sent an elegant email dispatch to the Central Family Court and associated bodies, with copies to CAFCASS and the U.S. Embassy.
Attached:
The master civil claim bundle in Simlett v Multiple Defendants — the £88 million manifesto of institutional misconduct — submitted not as an application, but as a referential sledgehammer.
It stated, with professional restraint:
"This is not a Family Court application, but the Court should have a complete record of all evidence underpinning the civil claims."
Translation:
“I’m not asking for permission. I’m submitting the archive.”
II. What It Contained
The file bundle included:
A fully compiled N1 claim against 23 public and private institutions
Evidence of medical harm, disability discrimination, and retaliatory safeguarding
Crossover data from the civil arena that renders the Family Court's proceedings both contextually impoverishedand dangerously partial if not acknowledged
A Google Drive link was also included — tastefully, of course — so the court could browse the archive like a librarian selecting a weapon.
III. Why SWANK Logged It
Because this is how power moves when it has no title — only evidence.
Because a litigant with four stolen children, a chronic illness, and no state protection still had the presence of mind to drop the bundle, cite the drive, and walk away with grace.
Because too often, Family Court pretends it doesn’t see the systemic violence driving the so-called “private” dispute. This post makes that avoidance harder.
IV. SWANK’s Position
SWANK London Ltd. recognises this Reference Filing as:
A procedurally elegant cross-jurisdictional warning shot
An attempt to civilise the uncivil mechanisms of the Family Court
And a demonstration that while the courtroom may be small, the archive is vast
The record now contains:
The names of all 23 defendants
The documented harm to four disabled U.S. citizen children
And the formal intention to hold every department, director, and decision-maker accountable — one bundle at a time