13th November 2025
Case Law Unseen
Author: Albert Richard Lung
Copyright © 2025: Richard Lung
Table of Contents
- Preface to Case 13539692
- Dysfunctional “Safeguardings”
- Usurped Representation
- Lack of Due Process
- Prevention Better than Cure
- Family Application Coupled with State Censorship
- Social Services and Liberties-Deprivation Anti-Human Rights Law
- Care Home Conditions
- Illnesses
- Post-script
- Advance Statement / Statement of Intent
Preface to Case 13539692
My mother, Ella, was a good person, who bore no ill to anyone for her misfortunes. So, the least I could do would be to follow her example. If a frown of disapproval crosses my brow in the course of these proceedings, it is no less natural but of no more consequence than the passing clouds.
I believe we degrade ourselves, and stunt our moral growth, by not heeding our consciences, and leaving them in the keeping of state power, which should discourage rather than foster the practice.
The British prison system is bursting from an overflow of convictions. Sentences were shortened to ease the overcrowding. The law is much too prone to use the living death of imprisonment as a cure-all—even of the innocent. Mum called Deprivation of Liberties “a wicked law,” with which I heartily agree.
Dysfunctional “Safeguardings”
It’s a tangled story, and I don’t know how to do it justice briefly. I sought ambulance help for my mother, who had fallen out of bed behind the door in August 2019. From free point of entry to hospitals, the government seemed to operate vigilante justice at the point of entry, perhaps on the theory that catching criminals won more votes than sometimes letting the guilty go free.
As I asserted to a district nurse involved in Mum’s last days, when allowed home: if they had not been distracted by social services’ continuous “safeguardings” against me, they might have given Mum a proper health check and discovered her aggressive skin cancer before she was almost dead of it.
The district nurse said she could not comment, but of course she did, to exonerate her colleagues. She was a skilled hard worker but I don’t think she realized social workers are not so well-trained. In particular, allowing social workers onto medical records in 2025 would be disastrous, polluting medical data, obtained by the scientifically trained, with prejudicial civil law hearsay gossip.
What I will say is the need for basic health-care education on a national curriculum. This would relieve the overstressed NHS for more specialist work. Journalist Paul Harrison said “over-developed countries” try to do too much, whereas the public could look after routine illnesses themselves, perhaps with the help of a “bare-foot doctor.”
Ditching the old-fashioned presumption of innocence, government adopted the humiliating unwisdom of presumption of guilt in its population. It is difficult to say now who is the bad example to whom—the people or the politicians supposed to mirror or represent them.
The government was tying everybody in a noose of state approval or disapproval. Instead of the people approving or disapproving of the government, the government was approving or disapproving of the people.
Usurped Representation
Even before the verdict on the safeguarding warning against me was reached, the social worker, noting I didn’t know what was going on around me—who did know his mother he had lived with for seventy years—went over my head for representation of my mother with a paid stranger, which officiation I did not even know about, opening the way to a likewise unsuspected deprivation of her liberties.
The social worker tried to put my mother under state guardianship, effectively a confiscatory nationalization of her assets. I had heard of this under-publicized state encroachment but could get no help to counter the threat.
The social worker twice blocked my attempts to bring Mum home with a live-in carer, using the dictatorial excuse of “confidentiality” against the home carer knowing Mum’s medication. My elderly mother was not a state secret, nor was her medication subject to commercial confidentiality.
The second care home selected by the social worker was the most remote in England, severing my lifetime relationship with my mother. She waited and deteriorated noticeably in a hospital in another town for over a hundred days, while winter approached.
Lack of Due Process
An impudent official, ever presuming guilt, also used the original aspersion against me. Deprivation of the mother goes with defamation of the son. Mother and I have one and two-thirds centuries of law-abiding between us. We have earned the right to a good name.
Weeks passed before I knew a slur had been fabricated. In the meantime, the social worker recruited informers against me. There was no idea of fair play, only of building a self-protective (though false) case. I was not charged with anything I could defend myself against and was left under a cloud, to be stigmatized.
Civil law hearsay gossip allows presumption of guilt beyond evidence. Friendly witness-hunting undermines trust, inviting comparison to a failed Iron Curtain country of informers to a police state. Parliament is making the people in its own image instead of the people making Parliament in their image.
Prevention Better than Cure
The only reason the representative conceded my mother’s application to come home was because it was within a week after she caught COVID-19 in her “death trap” of a care home. She survived the virus, but only for the average two-year life expectancy of a care home resident.
Morals:
- Family responsibility should revert from the state to traditional family liability. Only the family can provide the necessary emotional support.
- The NHS could save many lives by offering body scans for early detection of cancer and other maladies.
Family Application Coupled with State Censorship
A second care worker followed the obstructive lead of the first. Officialdom sought to remove publication of my journals detailing my mother’s distress. The court initially supported this, though the judge had not read the journals.
I was made second respondent after ensuring no party objected to my participation. The solicitor initially tried to exclude me but eventually allowed my full involvement.
Belatedly, a second visit confirmed my mother’s wish to come home beyond doubt. Yet, official planning included contingencies to return her to the loathed care home. My protests were ignored, highlighting the cruelty of administrative caution over common sense and compassion.
Social Services and Liberties-Deprivation Anti-Human Rights Law
When social services concluded deprivation of liberties in February 2020, it was a case-building exercise to justify the unjustifiable. Mother was excluded from meetings about her own “best interests.” Her praise for me went unheeded. Officialdom’s omnipotence earned them the nickname “Lord of Creation” on social media.
Care Home Conditions
The care home was graded “good,” but the environment failed to ignite interest in life. Residents were isolated from family, staff were overworked, and meals were substandard. Many inmates lost the power of speech, appeared comatose, or were withdrawn. The care home was essentially a profit-motivated life imprisonment “death-trap,” as my mother called it.
Illnesses
Mum contracted infections and was continuously medicated. Hallucinations, antibiotics, and unnecessary diet changes made her last years miserable. Aggressive skin cancer ultimately took her life. Psychosomatic illness went undiagnosed. The care home ignored her need for warmth, comfort, and personal items, making her feel like a nuisance.
Post-script
Celia Kitzinger of the Open Justice project publicized my journals about family splitting. Eleven years of work were lost due to a merger with Draft2Digital. Only Amazon continues to publish my works, though technical issues persist.
I have spent my adult life studying electoral reform, inventing Binomial STV, a voting system that uses a single, rational count for election and exclusion, avoiding wasted or tactical votes.
Advance Statement / Statement of Intent
I, Albert Richard Lung, declare my intention to stay, till I die, in my mother’s house. I wish to receive whatever quantity of drugs can keep me free from pain or distress, even if death is hastened. I do not consent to be kept alive by artificial means, nor transferred to hospital.
Home care, emotional continuity, and familiar surroundings are essential for dignity and life quality. Hospitals and care institutions, while well-meaning, cannot replicate the emotional support a family provides.
