“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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Chromatic v Westminster: In Re Removal by Retaliation, Not Law



Retaliation, Rebranded as Removal

A Judicial Review Addendum on the Political Utility of Emergency Orders


Filed Date: 23 June 2025

Reference Code: SWANK/JR/0623-RETALIATION-ADDENDUM
Court Filename: 2025-06-23_Addendum_Judicial_Review_Removal_Retaliation
One-line Summary: Addendum to Judicial Review documenting the retaliatory and unlawful seizure of four U.S. citizen children.


I. What Happened

On 22 June 2025, four American children were forcibly removed from their home by Metropolitan Police officers and Westminster social workers. No lawful notice was served. No legal representation was present. No safeguarding assessment had justified the event. The mother—Polly Chromatic—was medically nonverbal and entirely excluded.

This addendum was filed the following day in the High Court, supplementing an already active Judicial Review claim concerning safeguarding misconduct, public law breach, and jurisdictional overreach. It lays bare the retaliation that occurred under the camouflage of “child protection.”


II. What the Complaint Establishes

  • That the removal was procedurally invalid—executed without disclosure, representation, or the claimant’s participation.

  • That the mother’s disabilities were explicitly disregarded, in contravention of the Equality Act 2010.

  • That this act followed a cascade of legal filings: a Judicial Review, an N1 civil claim, and public documentation on SWANK—all of which directly preceded the removal.

  • That the U.S. Embassy was never notified, despite the international legal obligations triggered by the nationality of all five family members.

  • That this was not protection. It was retribution, dressed in bureaucratic ceremony.


III. Why SWANK Logged It

Because safeguarding is not supposed to operate like a police raid against a litigant.
Because removing American children from a disabled parent with active legal claims—without protocol or reply—looks very much like retaliation.
Because disability accommodations are not decorative. And consular rights are not optional.
Because this is the moment where lawful family separation crossed into geopolitical misconduct.


IV. Violations

  • Children Act 1989 – Sections 38 & 44

  • Equality Act 2010 – Sections 20, 29

  • Human Rights Act 1998 – Articles 6 (fair trial) & 8 (family life)

  • UN Convention on the Rights of the Child – Articles 3, 9

  • Vienna Convention on Consular Relations – Article 37

  • Judicial Review Principles – Natural Justice & Legitimate Expectation


V. SWANK’s Position

The timing was not incidental. The process was not lawful. The motivation was not protection. The silence that followed? Noted.

The events of 22 June mark a decisive break from any pretence of legal proportionality. The state acted with the precision of enforcement—but without the burden of evidence. The mother was silenced, the children seized, and the documents served to no one.

SWANK London Ltd. hereby confirms that this addendum is not simply a filing—it is a warning.


⟡ 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 Westminster: In Re The Threshold That Never Was



"You Can't Remove Children Without Saying Why"

A Third Formal Request for a Threshold That Still Doesn’t Exist


Filed Date: 3 July 2025

Reference Code: SWANK/ICO/THRESHOLD-REQUEST
Court Filename: 2025-07-03_Letter_Westminster_ICOThresholdDisclosureRequest
One-line Summary: Westminster was again asked to provide the statutory threshold for removing U.S. children—and again, did not reply.


I. What Happened

On 3 July 2025, SWANK London Ltd. issued its third formal letter to Westminster Children’s Services, demanding disclosure of the statutory threshold allegedly relied upon to justify the Interim Care Order (ICO) issued on 23 June 2025.

Addressed to Kirsty Hornal, Sam Brown, Sarah Newman, and Westminster Legal Services, the letter repeats a simple, lawful query: What is the legal basis for taking the children?

This follows two previous ignored requests dated 20 April and 27 June 2025. No statutory citation, no supporting documentation, and no lawful explanation has ever been provided. Not even the basic Section 38 threshold under the Children Act 1989 has been identified.

Meanwhile, the children remain separated from their mother. The local authority remains silent. And the silence has been deafening.


II. What the Complaint Establishes

  • That Westminster has unlawfully withheld the legal rationale for a severe state intervention, despite three written requests.

  • That the procedural burden has been inverted: the parent must chase the authority for the justification of its own actions.

  • That this conduct, in context, appears not just negligent—but strategically evasive.

  • That institutional retaliation is disguised as safeguarding, and papered over with non-response.


III. Why SWANK Logged It

Because removing four American children without stating the threshold is not "intervention"—it is seizure without process.

Because this was not a formality—it was a statutory demand. And Westminster's refusal to answer reveals everything about the fragility of their position.

Because legal thresholds are not optional. They are not administrative flair. They are the only thing separating a lawful order from an unlawful act.

And because every unanswered letter becomes its own kind of evidence.


IV. Violations

  • Children Act 1989, Section 38 – Threshold for Interim Care Orders

  • Human Rights Act 1998, Article 6 – Right to a Fair Trial

  • Equality Act 2010 – Failure to make disability-related communication adjustments

  • UN Convention on the Rights of the Child – Article 9 (Separation from Parents)

  • Family Procedure Rules 2010 – Duty to disclose legal basis and grounds


V. SWANK’s Position

Westminster has made a choice: to act without explanation, to enforce without authority, and to retreat behind silence when questioned. That is not safeguarding. It is institutional misconduct in procedural drag.

This letter is the third—and final—courtesy request. What comes next will not be a letter. It will be judicial escalation, regulatory submission, and evidentiary publication.

And yes, it will be archived. Publicly. Indelibly. Professionally.


⟡ 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.