⟡ On the Necessity of Explaining the Obvious ⟡
Filed: 26 January 2026
Reference: SWANK/INTERVENTION/CONTEMPT-CLARIFICATION
Download PDF: 2026-01-26_PC44532_LetterOfIntervention_ContemptMischaracterisation.pdf
Summary: A formal intervention correcting an incorrect assertion of contempt grounded in conduct expressly authorised by court order.
I. What Happened
An assertion was made that the use of the email address director@swanklondon.com, and the submission of correspondence and complaints from that address, constituted contempt of court.
This assertion was advanced notwithstanding the existence of a civil court order which expressly records that service of the order and all documents in the claim was agreed to be accepted at that address.
The resulting confusion required clarification.
II. What the Document Establishes
• The civil order dated 12 September 2025 expressly recognises director@swanklondon.com
• No prohibition exists on the use of that address
• No restriction exists on corporate or representative correspondence
• No order prohibits the submission of complaints, audits, or regulatory communications
• Distinct courts may lawfully specify different communication addresses within different jurisdictions
• Compliance with multiple court directions does not constitute breach
In short, the assertion of contempt is unsupported by the text of any order.
III. Why SWANK Logged It
• To stabilise the procedural record
• To prevent interpretive drift
• To ensure that court orders are applied as written rather than as imagined
• To preserve an example of administrative overreach corrected without theatrics
IV. Applicable Standards & Violations
• The requirement that contempt arise only from express breach
• The principle that court orders mean what they say
• Jurisdictional separation between civil and family proceedings
• The basic expectation of careful reading
V. SWANK’s Position
This is not defiance. This is compliance.
• We do not accept the invention of prohibitions
• We reject the recharacterisation of authorised conduct as breach
• We will intervene where misdescription threatens procedural accuracy
⟡ This Entry Has Been Formally Archived by SWANK London Ltd. ⟡
Every intervention is measured.
Every clarification is dull because it is correct.
This is not correspondence for debate.
This is record correction.
Filed without emotion.
Preserved for audit, litigation, and instruction.
Because authority is improved by reading.
And contempt requires more than irritation.
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