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Chromatic v Westminster: In Re The Hearing That Wasn’t Served



The Care Order With No Transcript, No Notice, and No Shame

Procedural History of a Legal Ambush Carried Out in Velvet Silence


Filed Date: 24 June 2025

Reference Code: SWANK/FAMCOURT/0624-PROCEDURAL-HISTORY
Court Filename: 2025-06-24_SWANK_ProceduralHistory_CareOrderChallenge
One-line Summary: Formal timeline documenting the unlawful removal of four U.S. citizen children and the legal void left behind.


I. What Happened

This procedural history is not merely a sequence of dates—it is a forensic catalogue of judicial evasion. On 23 June 2025, four U.S. citizen children were removed without notice, court order disclosure, or even a whiff of procedural legitimacy.

The applicant, Polly Chromatic, was informed—after the fact—that a care order had been granted in a hearing she was neither invited to nor notified of. There is no transcript. There is no judgment. There is only silence, seizure, and post-hoc justification.


II. What the Complaint Establishes

  • That on 23 June 2025, the state physically removed four American minors from their mother without providing any documentation, destination, or procedural grounds.

  • That on 24 June 2025, the applicant filed six separate legal and regulatory actions in response—none of which have been adequately answered.

  • That this timeline exposes a complete administrative failure to meet even the lowest standards of justice: presence, notice, and disclosure.

  • That the entire removal occurred under the guise of law, but in the absence of it.


III. Why SWANK Logged It

Because a mother should not have to reconstruct the legal history of her children's removal from outside the courtroom.

Because when there is no hearing notice, no judgment, no service, and no transcript, the term “care order” becomes a fiction—a euphemism for enforced disappearance.

Because when a disabled U.S. citizen is excluded from her own family law matter, the question is not “what went wrong,” but rather: how many rights had to be ignored to pull it off?

Because history is being rewritten while it’s happening. So SWANK is writing it down instead.


IV. Violations

  • Children Act 1989 – Section 38 & 44

  • Human Rights Act 1998 – Articles 6 & 8

  • Equality Act 2010 – Sections 20 & 29

  • Family Procedure Rules – Part 12, Part 18

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

  • Public Law Standards – Notice, Service, Disclosure


V. SWANK’s Position

This is not a procedural history. It is an evidentiary indictment.

A timeline of what happens when the state forgets to follow its own script. When hearings occur without parties, and orders are implemented without being seen. When the very institutions entrusted with family protection become operatives of political retaliation.

There is no safeguarding here—only a stage play where the parent is never given a line.

SWANK London Ltd. has filed this record not for commentary, but for canonisation. What the court omits, we enshrine.


⟡ 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 MPS: On the Institutional Redefinition of Discrimination as Disagreement



⟡ The Informal Rejection of Formal Law ⟡
“Reasonable adjustments are... unreasonable. Review rights are... revoked.”

Filed: 5 June 2025
Reference: SWANK/MPS/DISMISSAL-WITHOUT-REMEDY
📎 Download PDF – 2025-06-05_SWANK_MPS_InformalComplaintDismissal.pdf
Met Police informally reject formal complaint PC/05184/25 with bureaucratic prose and circular logic.

⟡ Chromatic v MPS: On the Institutional Redefinition of Discrimination as Disagreement ⟡
Metropolitan Police Service, informal resolution, Equality Act denial, refusal of adjustments, safeguarding misuse, IOPC avoidance, performative apology


I. What Happened
On 5 June 2025, PC James Armstrong of the Metropolitan Police’s Complaints Resolution Unit issued an informal reply to Complaint PC/05184/25. This was in response to police involvement in discriminatory safeguarding escalations originating from NHS staff between November 2023 and February 2024 — including coercive questioning of a disabled parent and her children under visible medical distress.

Armstrong’s response evaded specifics and declined formal escalation, citing earlier complaints, valid referrals, and what he termed “reasonable” limitations on disability accommodations. The complaint was logged but intentionally notrecorded, thereby removing the complainant’s right to review.


II. What the Complaint Establishes

  • ⟡ Institutional reframing of discrimination as procedural necessity

  • ⟡ Euphemistic invalidation of access needs — “reasonable” becomes elastic

  • ⟡ False equivalence between concern raised and harm inflicted

  • ⟡ Deliberate informality to avoid triggering oversight

  • ⟡ Safeguarding weaponised against already-vulnerable family

  • ⟡ No documentation of actual verification process or misconduct remediation

This was not resolution. This was rhetorical repositioning.


III. Why SWANK Logged It
Because every refusal to record a complaint is an act of institutional curating — where only the least embarrassing grievances are allowed to exist. When a police force rewrites “rights” into “discretion,” it’s not an oversight. It’s an erasure.

The MPS response is not just offensive. It is jurisprudentially baroque — cloaked in the language of civility while denying both remedy and recognition. That is why SWANK logs it. Not to seek redress — but to build record.


IV. Violations

  • Equality Act 2010 (s.20–21) – denial of reasonable adjustments

  • Human Rights Act 1998, Article 8 – interference with family life

  • Police Reform Act 2002 – failure to record complaint and trigger statutory oversight

  • IOPC Statutory Guidance – improper informal handling of serious allegations


V. SWANK’s Position
This wasn’t learning. It was laundering.
This wasn’t protection. It was pretence.
We do not accept the substitution of oversight with prose.
We do not accept the reframing of discrimination as “contextually valid.”
And we certainly do not accept complaint mechanisms designed to remove the right to complain.

⟡ 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.



Polly Chromatic v RBKC: Seven-Day Expiring Data Access Sent Without Password



⟡ “We Will Send You the Password Shortly. Your Right to Access Depends on Our Schedule.” ⟡
This Wasn’t a Disclosure. It Was a Countdown Clock. Filed With a Seven-Day Threat and Velvet Obstruction.

Filed: 30 May 2025
Reference: SWANK/RBKC/SAR-ACCESSLIMITATION-LINKEXPIRY
📎 Download PDF – 2025-05-30_SWANK_SARNotice_RBKC_DataDisclosure15106629.pdf
Email from RBKC providing an expiring link to encrypted subject access disclosure with no immediate password, no accommodations, and a seven-day expiration barrier.


I. What Happened

At 09:55 on 30 May 2025, the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea emailed Polly Chromatic in response to Subject Access Request Ref. 15106629.

The message contained:

  • secure link to an encrypted message portal

  • A note stating: “we will send you a password shortly”

  • A warning that the link would expire in seven days

  • No disability access considerations

  • No downloadable documentation or printable option

  • No assurance of lawful format compliance

The password was promised but not included — turning access into a two-step digital scavenger hunt.


II. What the Complaint Establishes

  • Access to personal data was delayed and constrained by artificial limits

  • Delivery relied on non-synchronous digital parts — link in one email, password by text

  • The method deliberately excluded those without dual-channel access

  • The seven-day expiry functions as a procedural threat

  • This is part of a broader institutional pattern of disclosure avoidance by friction

This wasn’t protection. It was performance architecture with an expiration timer.


III. Why SWANK Logged It

Because the right to access your data shouldn’t depend on whether you check your text messages fast enough.
Because digital gates don’t protect privacy — they protect the institution from accountability.
Because this was not service delivery — it was sabotage via design.
Because we don’t just request records — we record the way they were denied.


IV. Violations

  • UK GDPR, Article 15 – Right of access obstructed by link expiration and delay

  • Data Protection Act 2018 – Lack of accessibility violates fairness and transparency

  • Equality Act 2010, Section 20 – No accommodations for known access needs

  • UNCRPD Article 13 – No provision for accessible remedy for disabled person

  • ICO SAR Code of Practice – Discourages use of excessive security barriers


V. SWANK’s Position

This wasn’t secure delivery. It was an escape room with jurisdictional consequence.
This wasn’t timely. It was delayed by design and expired by threat.
This wasn’t compliant. It was compliance cosplay — archived for the next tribunal.

SWANK hereby files this notice as the procedural mirror to the password-texted obstruction already logged.
The countdown began.
The access did not.
But the archive never expires.


⟡ 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 digital expiry deserves jurisdiction.

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Use requires express permission or formal licence. Unlicensed mimicry will be cited — as panic, not authorship.



Polly Chromatic v Unnamed Judge: Judicial Exclusion Complaint After Child Removal Without Process



⟡ “No Order. No Access. No Judge Identified. That’s Not a Ruling — That’s a Vanishing Act.” ⟡
When the Bench Excludes a Litigant to Approve a Removal, It’s Not Justice. It’s Jurisdictional Performance Art.

Filed: 23 June 2025
Reference: SWANK/JCIO/COMPLAINT-01
📎 Download PDF – 2025-06-23_SWANK_Complaint_JCIO_JudicialExclusionAndUnlawfulRemoval.pdf
Formal judicial misconduct complaint to the JCIO regarding the exclusion of a disabled parent from proceedings that resulted in secretive child removal.


I. What Happened

On 23 June 2025, Polly Chromatic submitted a formal complaint to the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office (JCIO) concerning the conduct of the Westminster Family Court judge who allegedly authorised the removal of her four U.S. citizen children. She was not notified of the hearing. She was not served. No order was provided. The hearing proceeded without her presence, participation, or representation — despite her documented status as a disabled American citizen with written-only communication needs. No efforts were made to accommodate her. The court knowingly excluded her.


II. What the Complaint Establishes

  • A disabled litigant was completely excluded from life-altering proceedings

  • No documents, notice, or communication were served or shown

  • The presiding judge issued a care order despite the parent’s absence, silence, and known disability

  • The removal occurred without due process or safeguards — during live civil litigation

  • The hearing served as a vehicle for removal, not resolution

This was not judicial discretion. It was a structural abandonment of procedural integrity.


III. Why SWANK Logged It

Because the judiciary is not permitted to function as an accomplice to jurisdictional disappearance.
Because the robe is not a shield for unlawfulness — especially not when it’s used to sign over children.
Because access to justice must be more than a slogan.
Because when the judge grants removal with no opposition, no advocate, and no notice —
they are not arbitrating. They are authoring harm.
Because judicial silence is still state violence.


IV. Violations

  • Judicial Conduct Guidelines – Failure to ensure fairness, transparency, and inclusion

  • Equality Act 2010, Sections 20 & 29 – Denial of access adjustments for written-only communication

  • Human Rights Act 1998, Articles 6 & 8 – Right to a fair hearing; right to family life

  • Children Act 1989 – Removal of children without lawful safeguards or parental inclusion

  • UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) – Complete procedural exclusion based on disability

  • JCIO Code of Judicial Ethics – Undermining public confidence in judicial impartiality and access


V. SWANK’s Position

This wasn’t a judicial act. It was courtroom choreography for a foregone conclusion.
This wasn’t exclusion. It was state-sanctioned disqualification.
This wasn’t justice. It was a ceremonial enactment of removal, minus the law.

SWANK logged this complaint not to appeal — but to preserve the record.
We do not expect justice from the judiciary that hid this process.
We expect scrutiny, exposure, and eventual reckoning.
This wasn’t law. This was law abandoned.


⟡ 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.


⟡ 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.

Polly Chromatic v Westminster Family Court: Complaint for Unlawful and Inaccessible Removal



⟡ “No Hearing. No Notice. No Order. And No One Thought It Unusual?” ⟡
When Process Is Replaced by Pretend, the Archive Submits a Complaint.

Filed: 23 June 2025
Reference: SWANK/FAMCOURT/COMPLAINT-01
📎 Download PDF – 2025-06-23_SWANK_Complaint_FamilyCourt_UnlawfulRemovalAndDisabilityExclusion.pdf
Formal complaint filed with the President of the Family Division regarding the unlawful, inaccessible removal of four U.S. citizen children.


I. What Happened

On 23 June 2025, Polly Chromatic submitted a formal complaint to Sir Andrew McFarlane, President of the Family Division. The complaint addressed the unlawful removal of her four U.S. citizen children by Westminster Children’s Services and Metropolitan Police — all carried out with no notice, no disability access, and no visible court order. The hearing, if it occurred at all, was inaccessible, undisclosed, and held without any participation from the disabled parent. No consular notification was made, and no accommodations were offered, despite longstanding medical documentation and active Judicial Review proceedings.


II. What the Complaint Establishes

  • The parent was excluded from all procedural participation

  • No written notice, order, or communication was delivered prior to removal

  • No disability access measures were enacted before or after

  • No consular authority was informed despite all parties being U.S. citizens

  • The Family Court enabled the use of secret orders to enact jurisdictional trespass

This wasn’t just a breach. It was a systemic performance of erasure.


III. Why SWANK Logged It

Because when children are removed and no one in the court can explain how — it isn’t law.
Because silence cannot be served in place of notice.
Because not one agency paused to ask whether their “removal” was even procedurally valid.
Because the parent’s identity — disabled, foreign, and in litigation — was treated not as protected, but expendable.
Because when the President of the Family Division has to be contacted to remind the court that due process exists —
SWANK considers that event historically significant.


IV. Violations

  • Children Act 1989 – Removal without notice, participation, or judicial transparency

  • Equality Act 2010, Section 20 – Failure to make disability-related adjustments

  • Human Rights Act 1998, Articles 6 and 8 – No fair hearing, no protection of family life

  • Family Procedure Rules – Breaches in service, disclosure, and hearing participation

  • Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, Article 36 – No notification to the U.S. Embassy

  • UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) – Complete disregard for communication access


V. SWANK’s Position

This wasn’t family court. It was institutional ghostwriting of parental removal.
This wasn’t legal process. It was a self-authored fiction stamped with a seal.
This wasn’t exclusion. It was targeted procedural disappearance.

SWANK submits this complaint not as a plea — but as a ledger entry in an expanding archive.
We do not ask for integrity.
We document the cost of its absence.


⟡ 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.


⟡ 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: Where Are the Children? ⟡



⟡ “One Day After They Took the Children, I Filed This. I’m Still Nonverbal. But the Document Isn’t.” ⟡
Contact was denied. So this was filed. Because no one should need permission to see their children after the state seizes them.

Filed: 23 June 2025
Reference: SWANK/FAMCOURT/0624-EMERGENCY-CONTACT-REINSTATEMENT
📎 Download PDF – 2025-06-24_SWANK_Application_CareOrder_EmergencyContactReinstatement.pdf
Filed in response to post-seizure silence. No contact. No updates. No reply. Just a disabled mother documenting retaliation in real time.


I. What Happened

On 23 June 2025 at 1:37 PM, police and Westminster Children’s Services removed four U.S. citizen children from their home without warning, documentation, or a care order shown. No contact has been allowed since.

By the next morning, Polly Chromatic filed this: a formal court application for emergency contact and possible reinstatement — because the state hasn’t even told her where her children are.

She still can’t speak.
So this speaks for her.


II. What the Complaint Establishes

  • Contact was denied for four U.S. children without cause

  • No legal notice, no court order shown, no accommodations for disability

  • No destination disclosed, no contact facilitated

  • Proceedings occurred in secret, excluding the disabled parent

  • This application calls for emergency remedy, judicial review, and reinstatement — in law, not in silence


III. Why SWANK Logged It

Because a mother is still waiting to hear her child’s voice.
Because nonverbal does not mean absent.
Because “care” without contact is not protection — it’s procedural disappearance.
Because Polly filed this from the archive.
Because you cannot delete the voice that filed it.

This is how legal resistance is documented.
This is what emergency looks like — when you're already under surveillance, already excluded, and still file faster than the state can redact.


IV. Violations

  • Children Act 1989, Section 34 – unlawful contact refusal

  • Human Rights Act 1998, Article 8 – right to family life

  • Equality Act 2010, Sections 20 & 29 – failure to accommodate

  • FPR Rules Part 18 & 12.3 – breach of urgent access protocols

  • Due process doctrine – no lawful cause, no written disclosure


V. SWANK’s Position

We do not accept a system that takes children on Monday and falls silent by Tuesday.
We do not accept procedural cowardice disguised as safeguarding.
We do not accept exclusion by design — not for Polly, not for anyone.
We do not accept that retaliation can hide behind court doors closed to disabled parents.
We do not accept contact refusal as status quo.

We accept only this:
They removed the children. She filed. They went silent. She published.


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.