“Though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still which she did not know. Her knowledge goes back only to the dawn of time. But if she could have looked a little further back… she would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor’s stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backward.” - Aslan, C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

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Showing posts with label Procedural Erasure. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Procedural Erasure. Show all posts

Referenced in: Re C (Due Process) [2012] EWCA Civ 1489 — “Participation is the Minimum Threshold of Justice"

⟡ “A Record Denied — Because Due Process Doesn’t Vanish on Request” ⟡

Filed: 24 June 2025
Reference: SWANK/FAMILY/TRANSCRIPT-REQUEST
📎 Download PDF – 2025-06-24_Request_for_ICO_Hearing_Transcript_and_Record.pdf
Formal request for court transcripts and attendance records after a secretive Interim Care Order imposed without notice, representation, or consent.


I. What Happened

On 24 June 2025, Polly Chromatic (Director, SWANK London Ltd.) issued a formal written demand to Westminster Legal Services, the Family High Court, and multiple related bodies requesting the complete transcript and legal submissions from the hearing that removed her four children.

She specified that:

  • She was never informed the hearing was scheduled.

  • No documents were served.

  • No solicitor was authorised to act.

  • No consent was given for any filings in her name.

The request invoked Article 6 of the ECHR, the Freedom of Information Act 2000, and the Family Procedure Rules, insisting that the authorities confirm whether they would disclose the record as a court document or an FOI response.


II. What the Complaint Establishes

  • A procedural black hole: no notice, no service, no participation.

  • Institutional gatekeeping preventing parents from even seeing what was done in their name.

  • The absurdity of having to formally request basic records to prove one’s own exclusion.

  • The transformation of safeguarding into a closed-circuit theatre of power.

This was not an administrative formality. It was the deliberate concealment of process.


III. Why SWANK Logged It

Because you cannot exercise rights over your children by clairvoyance.
Because an unnotified hearing is not justice — it is administrative seizure with a legal gloss.
Because if the record is hidden, there can be no accountability, only anecdote.
And because SWANK is not in the business of anecdote. We are in the business of evidence.


IV. Violations

  • Human Rights Act 1998 — Article 6: Right to a fair hearing

  • Equality Act 2010 — Sections 20–21: Duty to make reasonable adjustments

  • Family Procedure Rules 2010 — Participation and disclosure

  • Freedom of Information Act 2000


V. SWANK’s Position

This was not due process.
⟡ This was procedural erasure. ⟡
SWANK does not accept the normalisation of clandestine hearings or the casual deletion of parents from the legal record.
We will document every exclusion. Every time.

⟡ This Dispatch Has Been Formally Archived by SWANK London Ltd. ⟡
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We do not permit imitation. We preserve it as evidence.

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This is a legal-aesthetic instrument.
Filed with velvet contempt, preserved for future litigation.

Because evidence deserves elegance.
And retaliation deserves an archive.

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