The "polterjustice" phantom legal ecosystem
If it looks like a mafia extortion racket, and smells like a mafia extortion racket, maybe it is a mafia extortion racket?
The headline photo is from the very first protest I ever attended — 29 August 2020. I know the couple in it personally. How can five years have passed since we were venting our fury about lockdowns and masks, still unaware of the “vaccination” campaign — i.e., a bioweapon genocide — about to be deployed?
My sense is this: we are watching a hollowed-out state being dismantled in slow motion. The silent war was “won” years ago, but minimising casualties and collapse risk demands a gradual rollout of the new financial and legal world. Our job as civilians isn’t to “beat the system.” It’s to gather testimony showing why it was too corrupt to salvage.
Two Letters, Two Confessions
Yesterday, I received two intriguing — and potentially contradictory — responses to official requests I’d filed.
The first was from the Deputy Director of Legal Operations at HM Courts and Tribunals Service. Back in May, I wrote about a partial, incriminating response to a Freedom of Information Act request. The ask was simple: is there any genesis document creating the court named on my summons?
This is about as basic as it gets for a justice system. Courts must be constituted under law. That’s why civil rights protections like the European Convention on Human Rights (Article 6) and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (Article 14) exist — alongside our common law heritage.
The Ministry of Justice refused to give me a straight “yes” or “no.” So I asked for an internal review. Four weeks passed without acknowledgement. I threatened escalation to the Information Commissioner’s Office. Suddenly, a reply appeared, promising an answer in days. That answer arrived.
It pretends to answer the question while actually evading it — yet the evasion itself is explosive. They will not explicitly state whether the court is “real.” In jurisdictional terms, anything short of an emphatic “yes” is a “no.” They point to secondary legislation creating a similarly named Local Justice Area, not a court.
This is as close as you get to an official confession of a “ghost court.”
The JCIO and the Conditional Complaint
Meanwhile, I had filed a complaint to the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office (JCIO) about the judge in my March pre-trial hearing, who also presided over the trial.
When the issuing court is a nullity, the proceedings are void. The judge has no power even to consider whether she has jurisdiction — because there is no lawful court in the first place. Failure to prove jurisdiction when challenged is misconduct at minimum. Knowingly running a void criminal tribunal is criminal exposure: malfeasance, perverting the course of justice, fraud.
I filed the JCIO complaint as “conditional.” It would only proceed if the High Court confirmed the proceedings were void; if not, I would withdraw it. This wasn’t a vendetta — it was a constitutional safeguard.
The JCIO could have waited for the High Court’s ruling. Instead, they rejected it outright. If the void is proven, they have now bound themselves to the cover-up.
Two Arms, One Cover Story
We now have two arms of the state in contradiction. The Ministry of Justice tacitly admits it has no “birth certificate” for my supposed court — only a “happy birthday” card for a legal neighbour’s child.
The JCIO refuses to protect the public from the simulation of justice. The courtroom, robes, and procedure are there — but the deeper substance of lawful existence and judicial accountability is missing. It’s like the Bank of England moonlighting by photocopying banknotes out the back door.
The Ghost Ecosystem
This isn’t just my case. Others — such as Wayne Leighton — are discovering the same thing: a phantom legal ecosystem designed to extract revenue and compliance, stripped of all normal limits on power and authority.
Here’s the architecture:
Ghost courts: Not constituted in law — or not the actual body named on the paperwork.
Ghost complaints: Never formally laid before a Justice of the Peace; no signature; no identifiable complainant.
Ghost summonses: Issued in bulk by admin staff, impersonating a judicial act.
Ghost warrants: No case-specific review; no audit chain; sometimes no signature at all.
Ghost hearings: Rubber-stamped lists, often processed algorithmically.
Ghost defendants: Entities without legal personhood (e.g. “TV Licensing”, “Central Ticket Office”), immune from countersuit.
Ghost orders: Database entries or unsigned memos dressed up as court orders.
Ghost costs: “Average” sums unlinked to any real work.
This is polterjustice — a theatre of legality where each layer appears real until you peel it back. Ask for the authoritative paperwork and it vanishes into a chain of denials: bailiff → council → court → “no record.” Automation increases throughput and profit, while designing out the chance to challenge due process.
The Mafia Analogy
Structurally, it’s an extortion racket in state clothing:
Bosses: Central government and senior judiciary — setting loose rules to maximise extraction.
Capos: Councils, HMCTS regions, CPS — controlling territory and collections.
Enforcers: Bailiffs, court officers, police — applying coercion.
Front Businesses: Ghost courts and ghost orders — giving the shakedown a veneer of legitimacy.
The parallel is exact. The mob shows a fake badge; the ghost court waves a fake jurisdiction. Ghost costs are the “protection fee.” Ghost warrants are the implied threat: pay, or we take your property or liberty.
Yesterday’s Lesson
I asked for proof my court exists. They couldn’t give it. That should be case closed. Instead, I got the bureaucratic equivalent of a mobster’s forged ledger. I went to the JCIO with evidence of fraud; they tossed it out on a technicality — just as a mafia-run “complaints board” would.
This is why individual resistance rarely works. The state, like the mob, punishes the lone refuser. But if enough people call out the racket at once, it collapses. Ghost courts are uniquely vulnerable because their existence is binary. Either they exist in law, or they don’t.
Covid’s Legacy and the Reckoning to Come
The Covid era trained a generation of functionaries to treat “legal apparitions” as normal — as long as the money kept flowing. But in war, you “appear weak when you are strong.”
Those inside the system assume it will protect them from accountability. What if that’s false? What if there’s a brief window of mercy to turn away from wrongdoing?
Because if your “salary and pension” are ghost inducements — tied to a ghost system — then they could vanish, leaving only reputational ruin and criminal liability.
What if we the people really won’t be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, or numbered?
What if the commodification of human life ends when you can’t produce your court’s birth certificate?
Will you remain a free man, then?
Think about it.
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Wow. Interesting to hear that others are doing what you are doing and getting similar results.
Well done Martin. You have done the work and shared the formula. All it takes is one case to acknowledge the polterjustice fakery and we can pile in.