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“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

Recently Tried in the Court of Public Opinion

In Re: Scheduling as Sovereignty Or, How a Video Call Became the Performance of Parenthood



⟡ Bureaucratic Hospitality: Contact at 10 ⟡

Or, When Trauma Was Given a Time Slot


Metadata

Filed: 4 July 2025
Reference Code: SWANK/CONTACT/SCHEDULING/BROWN
Filed by: Polly Chromatic
Filed from: W2 6JL
Court File Name:
2025-07-04_ZC25C50281_Request_Schedule_Video_Chat_Children_Monday_10am.pdf


I. What Happened

On 3 July 2025, the Claimant requested a 10:00 AM Monday video call with her children. This was not a luxury but a request for basic continuity of care and affection — a mother trying to see her unlawfully removed children.

Sam Brown responded on 4 July with polite affirmation, confirming the Monday session. He included:

  • A Microsoft Teams link

  • A phone dial-in option

  • A statement that Kirsty Hornal would be present — with camera off, presumably monitoring

He also noted that legal would respond to “all other points.”

No mention was made of:

  • The father’s exclusion

  • The PIN code request

  • Previous refusals or behavioural pledges

  • Why the children were removed in the first place

In short: it was all logistics, no justice.


II. The Institutional Aesthetic

This email illustrates a key tenet of bureaucratic safeguarding:

Control the schedule. Displace the harm.

Mr. Brown “facilitates contact” not as a form of emotional repair, but as a containment measure. His message is warm, bland, and devoid of accountability — the precise tonal register of a system that knows it is being watched.


III. Why SWANK Logged It

Because this is how contact becomes policy theatre.

Because behind the politeness is:

  • A failure to notify the father

  • A refusal to acknowledge trauma

  • A system still pretending this removal was justifiable

Because the mother is not “requesting a slot.” She is asserting her lawful role — and the system’s email replies are a record of who thinks they are in charge of children they did not birth, raise, or medically support.


IV. SWANK’s Position

SWANK London Ltd. recognises this email as a ceremonial act of parental appeasement, rather than engagement.

It is logged as:

  • A document of contact mismanagement

  • A study in how administrative politeness masks structural violence

  • A reminder that procedural charm is not remedy

Contact does not cure separation.
A calendar invite is not family restoration.
And this reply is not neutral — it is curatorial.


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In Re: A Council’s Courteous Refusal to Meaningfully Act Or, When Reassurance Became the Delivery Method for Exclusion



⟡ Westminster Replies: With Reassurance, Retaliation, and Braids ⟡

Or, How a Bureaucrat Managed to Be Condescending, Incomplete, and Procedurally Decorative in One Email


Metadata

Filed: 4 July 2025
Reference Code: SWANK/WEST/SAMBROWN/ENDEARINGOBSTRUCTION
Filed by: Polly Chromatic 
Filed from: W2 6JL
Court File Name:
2025-07-04_ZC25C50281_Response_to_Queries_Contact_Medical_Care_And_Procedural_Issues.pdf


I. What Happened

On 4 July 2025, Sam Brown of Westminster City Council sent a multipoint reply to the Claimant, responding to urgent concerns with the tone of a cheery concierge — only without any key.

The email attempts to:

  • Frame parental exclusion as a scheduling issue

  • Reassure the parent that asthma appointments are now “rescheduled”

  • Insist that 10am contact times are universally suitable

  • Offer procedural scraps like letter drops and bracelet deliveries

  • Ask for consent to braid a child’s hair, while still denying the father access

In short: it offers everything but remedy.


II. Procedural Pageantry, Not Protection

While wrapped in “warm regard,” this email:

  • Repeats the requirement for a behavioural pledge to access face-to-face contact

  • Admits that the children’s personal devices are being withheld

  • States that appointments were rescheduled without parental consultation

  • Offers to “review” letters before allowing children to read them

  • Assigns the Claimant’s basic parental rights to administrative approval processes

  • Fails to explain why the Claimant or father were excluded in the first place

It is reassurance as refusal — procedural theatre as parenthood’s replacement.


III. Why SWANK Logged It

Because nothing exemplifies the bureaucratic imagination like this kind of email.

Because it takes a special kind of institutional gall to respond to civil litigation, diplomatic distress, and child traumawith:

“Would you like someone else to collect the bracelets?”

Because braiding permissions do not resolve Article 8 violations.
Because the phone PIN for the father still hasn’t arrived.
Because trauma isn’t soothed with bullet points and polite obstruction.


IV. SWANK’s Position

SWANK London Ltd. recognises this correspondence as:

  • Aesthetic proceduralism masquerading as engagement

  • Obstruction in the language of cooperation

  • A document of ongoing parental alienation camouflaged as child welfare

This is not care. It is case management’s attempt to perform benevolence while excluding lawful rights, neutralising urgency, and safeguarding its own liability.

No, Sam — it does not “cover all the queries.”


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Chromatic v Westminster & RBKC Children’s Services — Institutional Retaliation, Procedural Misconduct, and Unlawful Child Removal (2025) EWFC ZC25C50281



Hearing Statement for the Honourable Court — 11 July 2025

Case No: ZCXXXXXXX

Polly Chromatic, Litigant in Person and Director of SWANK London Ltd.


Preliminary Exordium:

May it please the Honourable Court,

I, Polly Chromatic, custodian and advocate of four remarkably gifted progeny, each endowed with dual citizenship of the United States of America and Her Majesty’s United Kingdom — Regal, Prerogative, Kingdom, and Heir — do present myself today, armed with erudition and indefatigable resolve.

My academic repertoire spans the rigorous fields of Computer Science, Psychology, and Human Development, crowned with several additional scholarly accolades. Such a constellation of expertise informs both my professional engagement in ethical Artificial Intelligence — a discipline steeped in the highest principles of probity, fairness, and human dignity — and my scrupulous devotion to nurturing my children’s intellectual and moral fabric.

I am also the Director of SWANK London Ltd., a bastion of institutional accountability and archival diligence, from whence I orchestrate my crusade for justice whilst maintaining a vigilant presence within my household.

My consort, domiciled in the Turks and Caicos Islands, remains a collaborative partner in the stewardship of our children’s upbringing despite our physical separation.


I. Procedural Context and Foundational Background

The onset of RBKC Children’s Services’ intervention coincided most regrettably with my family’s displacement caused by grievous sewer gas poisoning — an environmental calamity that marred our prior abode and occasioned prolonged residence in a transient hotel. On the very day of our relocation to a new domicile, the local authority precipitously escalated the matter to a Child Protection Plan, under the specious pretext of my temporarily diminished capacity for verbal discourse, despite my repeated entreaties for written communication — all summarily dismissed.

Westminster Children’s Services later usurped responsibility, demoting the case to a Child in Need plan by October 2024, subsequent to a parade of six social workers whose assessments proved void of tangible safeguarding concerns.

Kirsty Hornal entered the fray in October 2024, bringing with her a relentless insistence on verbal communication notwithstanding my persistent respiratory afflictions — sequelae of said poisoning.


II. Institutional Accountability and Procedural Dissonance

From the genesis of Westminster Children’s Services’ involvement in February 2024, I have tirelessly demanded clarity, transparency, and lawful basis for their prolonged intervention. Yet, rather than ameliorating our plight, these agents have exacerbated my family’s injuries.

Despite my documented health challenges — including debilitating asthma exacerbated by the aforementioned toxic exposure — my entreaties for accommodation were met with scorn and allegations of mental instability and harassment.

To shield my family, I have resorted to formal legal recourse, filing:

  • A police report against Ms. Hornal (13 February 2025);

  • An N1 claim implicating Westminster and RBKC Children’s Services (3 March 2025);

  • A Judicial Review contesting procedural impropriety (28 April 2025);

  • A criminal referral for malfeasance against Ms. Hornal and Mr. Brown (21 June 2025).

Yet, obstruction persists, and the paternal figure of my children remains unjustly excluded, a travesty of procedural fairness.


III. Retaliation, Disregard, and Communication Abjection

Ms. Hornal’s last domicile visitation occurred on 13 February 2025. Thereafter, a nefarious Public Law Outline letter, dated 15 April 2025, levied baseless allegations of narcotic misuse against me, demanding an intrusive hair follicle analysis — a profound departure from her erstwhile commendations of my children’s scholarly accomplishments.

Scheduled judicial dialogue set for 2 May 2025 was summarily aborted, whilst Ms. Hornal’s vexatious insistence on invasive visits continued unabated, despite my protestations regarding the deleterious health consequences.

Threats of supervision orders emerged mid-June, accompanied by further procedural chicanery and, most alarmingly, episodes of stalking by an unidentified male subsequent to my public disclosures on SWANK London Ltd., prompting yet another police report.


IV. Breach of Duty of Care and Ethical Obligation

My earnest desire is singular: to nurture and educate my children in a secure and loving environment. Yet, the intransigence and caprice of Ms. Hornal have consigned me to untenable predicaments, accused both of disengagement and mental instability when prioritizing my children’s wellbeing.

Our household endures the scars of egregious environmental harm, including the fatality of our cherished pet and my own vocal and respiratory impairments.

Westminster Children’s Services has egregiously disregarded these vulnerabilities, further imperiling my family’s health through negligent conduct and retaliatory removal.

Such acts constitute not mere neglect but a flagrant dereliction of duty and moral turpitude, precipitating profound suffering.


V. Institutional Retaliation and the Subversion of Safeguarding

Following my initiation of legal claims, Westminster Children’s Services hastened to deploy an Emergency Protection Order, wielded as a sword against my family.

Ms. Hornal and Mr. Brown have compounded injury by excluding the paternal presence, cancelling indispensable medical appointments, unilaterally altering healthcare provisions, and orchestrating vexatious child care arrangements for my children through collusion with erstwhile legal counsel, Alan Mullem.

My establishment of SWANK London Ltd. serves as a bulwark against these injustices, safeguarding the dignity and rights of my family.

Bereft of lawful cause, my children languish in isolation, denied normalcy and denied the joys of childhood pursuits — from acting and modelling opportunities to wholesome outdoor recreations and familial laughter.

The egregious dismissal of their medical needs foreshadows imminent health crises, including asthma exacerbations.

These punitive measures constitute an affront to genuine safeguarding and inflict grievous developmental and emotional wounds.


VI. Ethical Parenting and Philosophical Convictions

My household stands as a citadel of principled living, where rigorous standards of health, education, respect, and justice prevail.

My pedagogic ethos is profoundly holistic, nurturing every facet of my children’s being—intellectual, emotional, physical, ethical, and spiritual—with bespoke and strength-focused approaches that cultivate inquisitiveness and critical acumen.

Their education is a tapestry of rigorous scholarship—spanning the sciences, mathematics, humanities—and lived experience, infused with ethical reflection and global conscientiousness.

I champion resilience, emotional intelligence, and leadership, preparing my progeny to navigate and enrich a complex, interconnected world.


VII. Entreaty for Judicial Relief

In light of the foregoing, I most respectfully implore this Honourable Court to:

  • Immediately restore my children to my care forthwith, without deferral for ongoing proceedings;

  • Excise Ms. Hornal and Mr. Brown, along with Westminster and RBKC Children’s Services, from this matter, given manifest conflicts and improprieties;

  • Mandate a rigorous and transparent inquiry into the practices of Westminster and RBKC Children’s Services, in view of the systemic failings and retaliatory conduct;

  • Command full disclosure of all safeguarding and medical documentation pertinent to this case;

  • Ensure future involvement is entrusted solely to culturally competent, impartial professionals, upholding the highest standards of equity and justice.


VIII. Peroration

This grievous saga of unlawful removal, procedural dereliction, and retaliatory malfeasance has inflicted profound harm upon my family’s health, wellbeing, and dignity.

I beseech this Court to uphold justice and restore the sanctity of my family unit with all due haste.

I thank the Court for its attention and solemn duty.


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In Re: The Email That Became a Summons Or, When Politeness Was the Final Act Before Reckoning



⟡ Service by Sovereign ⟡

Or, When the Archive Handed the Kingdom Its Summons


Metadata

Filed: 4 July 2025
Reference Code: SWANK/N1/SERVICE/WESTMINSTER
Filed by: Polly Chromatic 
Filed from: W2 6JL
Filed Against: Westminster City Council
Court File Name:
2025-07-04_ZC25C50281_Service_N1_Claim_Bundle_Polly_Chromatic_v_Westminster.pdf


I. What Happened

At 12:38 on 4 July 2025 — the claimant served Westminster City Council with the N1 Multi-Defendant Civil Claim Bundle naming them among 23 institutional defendants.

Attached was:

  • The full claim form

  • The master witness statement

  • The schedule of losses totalling £88 million

  • Annexes A–W, including material specific to Westminster

  • certificate of service

  • And a link to the complete digital evidence repository

This was not a courtesy.
It was procedural ordnance — sent not to inform, but to formally indict.


II. Why It Matters

Because service is not symbolic — it is the formal act of placing institutions on legal notice that their misconduct will no longer be siloed or sanitised.

And Westminster, by receiving it:

  • Became legally accountable

  • Became procedurally bound

  • And became part of the historical record of transatlantic retaliation

This email constituted:

  • Proper service under CPR Part 6

  • A timestamped record of legal escalation

  • And a declaration that SWANK is no longer “raising concerns” — it is filing litigation


III. Why SWANK Logged It

Because the moment of service is sacred.

Because when a disabled U.S. citizen mother delivers a multi-million-pound civil indictment without institutional backing, funding, or silence, it is a sovereign act of juridical grace.

Because while councils may delay, deny, or defer —
they cannot un-receive the archive.


IV. SWANK’s Position

SWANK London Ltd. formally declares that Westminster City Council has been:

  • Properly served

  • Duly notified

  • And now held legally responsible for its participation in a documented scheme of:

    • Retaliatory safeguarding

    • Disability discrimination

    • Procedural sabotage

    • Institutional cruelty

The claimant need not be heard to be right.
The claim is filed. The archive is published. The kingdom is served.


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In Re: “Thank You” v. The Legal Meaning of Receipt Or, How a Borough Traded Urgency for Tone



⟡ In the Court of Courteous Contempt ⟡

Or, When a Borough Thanked You for Your Complaint Without Reading It


Metadata

Filed: 4 July 2025
Reference Code: SWANK/RBKC/FACADE/COMPLAINTS
Filed by: Polly Chromatic 
Filed from: W2 6JL
Court File Name:
2025-07-04_ZC25C50281_Thank_You_Email_RBKC_Complaints.pdf


I. What Happened

At 12:44 on 4 July 2025, the Claimant submitted a formal complaint to RBKC regarding racial discrimination, medical destabilisation, and the unlawful seizure of her four disabled U.S. citizen children.

RBKC’s full reply?

“Thank you for your email.”
“We aim to reply within 3 working days.”
Here’s a privacy notice.
Goodbye.


II. The Bureaucratic Ballet of Non-Engagement

Rather than:

  • Acknowledge the named children

  • Confirm receipt of the issues raised

  • Issue a complaint number

  • Reference the 23-defendant civil claim

  • Engage with any urgency, risk, or rights

RBKC delivered a metaphysical shrug.

They essentially said:

“Thank you for flagging your civil trauma.
We’ll get back to you after lunch. Maybe.”


III. Why SWANK Logged It

Because a thank you is not always gratitude — sometimes it’s evasion with good grammar.

Because when an institution receives a 5-page complaint detailing:

  • Consular neglect

  • Disability-based exclusion

  • Medical endangerment

  • Judicial obstruction

…and replies with a boilerplate email about GDPR,
you’re no longer speaking to a borough —
you’re speaking to a curtain.


IV. SWANK’s Position

SWANK London Ltd. recognises this correspondence as:

  • Procedurally vacant

  • Aesthetic in nature only

  • And entirely devoid of accountability or institutional character

This message will be retained in the archive as:

  • Evidence of administrative staging

  • Proof of RBKC’s failure to acknowledge live safeguarding threats

  • And an example of how tone is often used to displace response

We thank them for their thank-you.
The archive is not impressed.


⟡ 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.