⟡ “We’ll Ruin Your Life — But Only When the Timezones Align” ⟡
A statutory PLO meeting rescheduled by email, on two days’ notice, because institutional chaos always takes precedence over legal protocol.
Filed: 29 April 2025
Reference: SWANK/WCC/PLO-02
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Email from Westminster’s Deputy Service Manager, Sam Brown, casually deferring a mandatory PLO meeting due to international travel coordination — without regard to disability access, urgency, or procedural formality.
I. What Happened
On 29 April 2025, Deputy Service Manager Sam Brown informed the claimant that her Public Law Outline meeting — scheduled for 2 May 2025 — was being cancelled due to timezone conflicts with the children’s father in Turks and Caicos. No alternative date was proposed, no access needs were acknowledged, and no apology was offered for the statutory implications of a delayed PLO process against a disabled parent.
Instead, the message reveals a disturbingly casual and ad hoc approach to a legal process designed to assess the potential removal of children.
II. What the Complaint Establishes
Undue delay of a statutory child protection process without procedural formality
Disregard for the claimant’s disability-related access needs or preparation time
Absence of urgency despite PLO’s legal seriousness
Prioritisation of the non-resident parent’s schedule over the rights of the disabled primary carer
Pattern of bureaucratic disruption and informal decision-making by Westminster
III. Why SWANK Filed It
This document is short — and that is precisely the point. A legal escalation that may alter a family’s future is being shifted around like a calendar invite, with no sense of urgency or accountability. When access to justice is this poorly managed, the issue is no longer the parent’s capacity — it’s the local authority’s.
SWANK archived this email to highlight:
The administrative unseriousness with which Westminster executes life-altering legal actions
The institutional double standard applied to disabled versus non-disabled parents
The procedural evidence of intentional delay, deflection, and power imbalance
IV. Violations
Children Act 1989 – Failure to safeguard via timely and properly convened meetings
Equality Act 2010 – Indirect discrimination via disregard for known disability needs
Article 6 ECHR – Right to a fair hearing, delayed and unreasonably shifted
Public Law Protocols – Mismanagement of a PLO timetable without formal reissue
Working Together 2018 – Failure to coordinate in the child’s best interest
V. SWANK’s Position
SWANK London Ltd. considers this email part of a pattern of systemic minimisation. Westminster appears comfortable delaying life-altering processes on a whim — while accusing parents of non-cooperation when they assert their rights. The legal process should not accommodate one party’s timezone while ignoring the other party’s legal protections.
We demand a full procedural audit of Westminster’s PLO scheduling practices, including cancellation protocols, disability accommodations, and internal communications standards.
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