15 December, 01:13
Courts increasingly behave like oracle machines: authoritative answers, no working shown.
What computer science reveals about the limits of law ⬇️
https://newsletter.marting...
What computer science reveals about the limits of law ⬇️
https://newsletter.marting...
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13 December, 08:47
Why do courts and public authorities so often answer a different question from the one you asked?
I’ve published a diagnostic framework that explains how institutions reason — and how procedural and rhetorical moves are substituted for formal proof.
It’s a tool you can reapply yourself (even with AI).
👉 https://newsletter.marting...
I’ve published a diagnostic framework that explains how institutions reason — and how procedural and rhetorical moves are substituted for formal proof.
It’s a tool you can reapply yourself (even with AI).
👉 https://newsletter.marting...
Why institutions keep answering the wrong question
A diagnostic framework for understanding how courts and public bodies actually reason
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12 December, 08:50
I never expected to face a “ghost court” or become an expert in constitutional litigation.
But when the system breaks on you, everything changes.
Here’s my testimony:
👉 https://newsletter.marting...
But when the system breaks on you, everything changes.
Here’s my testimony:
👉 https://newsletter.marting...
"When it happens to you" — my testimony - by Martin Geddes
The real human impact of a State operating beyond its limits of power and moral agency
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10 December, 07:07
We talk a lot about totalitarianism — the violence of a State that overwhelms you.
But almost nobody talks about the opposite:
mistalitarianism —
the violence of a State that isn’t there at all.
Ghost courts.
Phantom convictions.
Punishment without a tribunal that can be shown to exist.
This is not fiction.
This is the Single Justice Procedure.
👉 https://newsletter.marting...
But almost nobody talks about the opposite:
mistalitarianism —
the violence of a State that isn’t there at all.
Ghost courts.
Phantom convictions.
Punishment without a tribunal that can be shown to exist.
This is not fiction.
This is the Single Justice Procedure.
👉 https://newsletter.marting...
Mistalitarianism: the violence of non-being
Mistalitarianism is the violence that arises when the State demands obedience to a legal outcome while refusing to prove that the authority issuing it exists
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09 December, 08:26
A criminal case can only have ONE lawful court.
Mine had forty-four.
This isn’t a glitch. It’s a systemic identity fracture at the heart of the Single Justice Procedure — where simulated justice overtakes statutory law.
New article:
One case. Forty-four courts. Zero legitimacy.
https://newsletter.marting...
Mine had forty-four.
This isn’t a glitch. It’s a systemic identity fracture at the heart of the Single Justice Procedure — where simulated justice overtakes statutory law.
New article:
One case. Forty-four courts. Zero legitimacy.
https://newsletter.marting...
One case. Forty-four courts. Zero legitimacy.
When simulation replaces law, court identity collapses and civil rights vanish
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07 December, 08:40
Does America have “ghost courts”—tribunals that look like courts but aren’t courts at all?
I used my voidness/vires framework (and a lot of AI reinforcement) to test the U.S. system.
What emerged is… illuminating.
One institution practically glows.
📘 https://newsletter.marting...
I used my voidness/vires framework (and a lot of AI reinforcement) to test the U.S. system.
What emerged is… illuminating.
One institution practically glows.
📘 https://newsletter.marting...
Does the United States run any “ghost courts”?
A tentative analysis of where the line lies—and who crosses it
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06 December, 07:24
Most industries manage failure modes.
Justice systems don’t.
Today I published Total Vires Management — a framework for treating legality as a system property that must be monitored, audited, and engineered for reliability.
A new discipline for the digital state ↓
https://newsletter.marting...
Justice systems don’t.
Today I published Total Vires Management — a framework for treating legality as a system property that must be monitored, audited, and engineered for reliability.
A new discipline for the digital state ↓
https://newsletter.marting...
Total vires management - by Martin Geddes
Why modern public institutions need a new discipline for legality in automated systems
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05 December, 11:20
🚨 New: The Vires Failure Spectrum
“Ultra vires” isn’t enough anymore.
Ghost courts. Zombie jurisdictions. Algorithmic “justice”.
So I built a 9-level taxonomy for state power that has left the plane of law entirely.
If you want vocabulary for what’s actually happening:
👇
https://newsletter.marting...
“Ultra vires” isn’t enough anymore.
Ghost courts. Zombie jurisdictions. Algorithmic “justice”.
So I built a 9-level taxonomy for state power that has left the plane of law entirely.
If you want vocabulary for what’s actually happening:
👇
https://newsletter.marting...
The vires failure spectrum - by Martin Geddes
Why we need a new language for state power that has gone completely off the rails
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04 December, 08:55
New article: Vague-Flag — how provenance collapses in the modern information environment.
When institutions can’t prove who authored an event, issued an order, or originated a signal, legitimacy breaks.
Q. Missing court orders. Viral leaks. Anonymous operations.
Not conspiracy.
Not hoax.
A new epistemic condition.
Read here: https://newsletter.marting...
When institutions can’t prove who authored an event, issued an order, or originated a signal, legitimacy breaks.
Q. Missing court orders. Viral leaks. Anonymous operations.
Not conspiracy.
Not hoax.
A new epistemic condition.
Read here: https://newsletter.marting...
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30 November, 06:58
🚨 Lexworthiness is the word that could ground Britain’s fake courts overnight. ⚖️
Imagine your court case decided by a non-existent tribunal. It happens millions of times every year. Let's change that.
Show me the Lexworthiness certificate.
Read more 👉 https://newsletter.marting...
Imagine your court case decided by a non-existent tribunal. It happens millions of times every year. Let's change that.
Show me the Lexworthiness certificate.
Read more 👉 https://newsletter.marting...
Lexworthiness: The (new) word that could ground Britain’s "ghost courts" overnight
The new rule that could make unsafe tribunals impossible — and save millions of lives (the invisible, legal kind)
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25 November, 01:38
Scottish life.
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25 November, 01:34
Visiting friends in Scotland.
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25 November, 10:42
🚨 NEW ESSAY — Habeas Courtus 🚨
AI just exposed something the justice system cannot even see:
a ghost court issuing real orders.
GPT and Grok were asked to examine court legitimacy.
One analysed. One resisted.
One went silent.
The result? A breakthrough in frontier jurisprudence.
👉 Produce the court.
Read:
https://newsletter.marting...
AI just exposed something the justice system cannot even see:
a ghost court issuing real orders.
GPT and Grok were asked to examine court legitimacy.
One analysed. One resisted.
One went silent.
The result? A breakthrough in frontier jurisprudence.
👉 Produce the court.
Read:
https://newsletter.marting...
Habeas Courtus: How AI exposed a ghost court in the machine
Why the next great constitutional doctrine begins with a simple question: “Produce the court.”
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24 November, 06:37
🚨 WORLD FIRST 🚨
A private citizen using AI to audit the constitutional ontology of the courts.
I’ve just published the first complete model of how courts actually come into being, how they fail, and how modern systems drift into simulation of law.
Read it here → https://newsletter.marting...
A private citizen using AI to audit the constitutional ontology of the courts.
I’ve just published the first complete model of how courts actually come into being, how they fail, and how modern systems drift into simulation of law.
Read it here → https://newsletter.marting...
Modelling the void: a breakthrough in computational political science
Our legal and administrative systems have grown so fragmented that their true structure can now only be mapped using formal reasoning tools — including large language models
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24 November, 02:01
Enjoying the Lumiere Festival in Durham ten days ago.
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23 November, 06:59
At the edge of law sits a lighthouse on Bishop Rock.
And on the sands of Morecambe Bay, nothing can stand.
These places form the boundary of judicial ontology.
Beyond it lies the infinivoid —
and the woodpecker waiting to reveal the hollow trunk.
New essay:
https://newsletter.marting...
And on the sands of Morecambe Bay, nothing can stand.
These places form the boundary of judicial ontology.
Beyond it lies the infinivoid —
and the woodpecker waiting to reveal the hollow trunk.
New essay:
https://newsletter.marting...
Infinivoids and the ontological woodpecker
How a single formal insight collapses an entire rhetorical legal structure
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21 November, 01:51
A court record can be internally perfect and externally false.
A judicial act can appear without ever having happened.
A system can simulate law without performing it.
To void is human; to ultravoid requires a computer.
👇
https://newsletter.marting...
A judicial act can appear without ever having happened.
A system can simulate law without performing it.
To void is human; to ultravoid requires a computer.
👇
https://newsletter.marting...
To void is human; to ultravoid requires a computer
When the simulation of law becomes indistinguishable from the act
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21 November, 08:13
Beware the “FOTL”!
Courts are using name-calling to shut down legitimate constitutional scrutiny — even when their own documents admit systemic defects.
My latest analysis of JCS newsletters is now live:
🔗 https://newsletter.marting...
This one may unsettle a few institutions…
Courts are using name-calling to shut down legitimate constitutional scrutiny — even when their own documents admit systemic defects.
My latest analysis of JCS newsletters is now live:
🔗 https://newsletter.marting...
This one may unsettle a few institutions…
Beware the “FOTL”! - by Martin Geddes
How name-calling is prejudicing legitimate constitutional challenges
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20 November, 06:04
🚨 NEW: 42 Minutes of Public Law Formal Verification
I used AI to analyse the Magistrates’ Courts Act and produce a formal requirement spec for court naming — something HMCTS hasn’t managed in 20 years.
Every public decision can now be audited by citizens.
Revolutionary. 👇
https://newsletter.marting...
I used AI to analyse the Magistrates’ Courts Act and produce a formal requirement spec for court naming — something HMCTS hasn’t managed in 20 years.
Every public decision can now be audited by citizens.
Revolutionary. 👇
https://newsletter.marting...
42 minutes of Public Law Formal Verification
How AI equips ordinary people to validate the lawfulness of administrative acts
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19 November, 06:35
New essay out:
Computational Jurisprudence and the Algebra of Legality
At the frontier of law, everything degenerates into mathematics.
Today I filed a document that forced the justice system to confront its own internal logic.
Here’s the bigger picture behind what I’m doing.
➡️ https://newsletter.marting...
Computational Jurisprudence and the Algebra of Legality
At the frontier of law, everything degenerates into mathematics.
Today I filed a document that forced the justice system to confront its own internal logic.
Here’s the bigger picture behind what I’m doing.
➡️ https://newsletter.marting...
Computational Jurisprudence and the Algebra of Legality
At the frontier of law, everything degenerates into mathematics
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16 November, 12:19
New article: What the Justices’ Clerks Society reveals about itself.
After analysing their internal newsletters (via FOIA), one thing is clear: the magistrates’ courts system no longer has a coherent understanding of what a “court” is.
Scripts replace reasoning, admin labels replace law, and digital workarounds replace jurisdiction.
This isn’t misconduct — it’s ontological drift.
Read here:
🔗 https://newsletter.marting...
After analysing their internal newsletters (via FOIA), one thing is clear: the magistrates’ courts system no longer has a coherent understanding of what a “court” is.
Scripts replace reasoning, admin labels replace law, and digital workarounds replace jurisdiction.
This isn’t misconduct — it’s ontological drift.
Read here:
🔗 https://newsletter.marting...
What the Justices' Clerks' Society reveals about automated courts
(An institutional self-portrait the public was never meant to examine closely)
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16 November, 09:29
Litigants in person now have tools that were unimaginable even 3 years ago.
AI isn’t a shortcut — it’s a cognitive exoskeleton.
I’ve written a practical guide on how to use GPT/Grok to produce legal work that outclasses the system.
➡️ Tips on using AI to aid legal drafting
https://newsletter.marting...
AI isn’t a shortcut — it’s a cognitive exoskeleton.
I’ve written a practical guide on how to use GPT/Grok to produce legal work that outclasses the system.
➡️ Tips on using AI to aid legal drafting
https://newsletter.marting...
Tips on using AI to aid legal drafting - by Martin Geddes
Lessons from my own litigation campaign that may help you do your own
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Davy Crocket
@Davicrockerbeez
12 November, 10:43
In response Martin Geddes to his Publication
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11 November, 05:39
A night in Newcastle.
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10 November, 08:18
Code now governs justice. When algorithms outrun statute, democracy drifts off course.
“Citizen digital statesmanship” — a calm look at the HMCTS IT crash we can still land safely.
https://newsletter.marting...
“Citizen digital statesmanship” — a calm look at the HMCTS IT crash we can still land safely.
https://newsletter.marting...
Citizen digital statesmanship: the "in-flight repair job"
An update on my "ghost court" effort to manage the risk from an unconfined IT failure
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02 November, 09:52
Law isn’t magic — it’s grammar.
When names stop pointing to real things, jurisdiction collapses into simulation.
Lawful Metonyms and Unlawful Aliases
A framework for determining the boundary between jurisdiction and theatre.
🔗 newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/lawful-metonyms-and-unlawful-aliases
When names stop pointing to real things, jurisdiction collapses into simulation.
Lawful Metonyms and Unlawful Aliases
A framework for determining the boundary between jurisdiction and theatre.
🔗 newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/lawful-metonyms-and-unlawful-aliases
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01 November, 05:10
I finally got out for a photography walk — my first in three weeks.
Between court filings and bureaucratic absurdity, even daylight felt like a luxury.
The Structural Obstruction of Justice — new on Substack.
📸 https://newsletter.marting...
Between court filings and bureaucratic absurdity, even daylight felt like a luxury.
The Structural Obstruction of Justice — new on Substack.
📸 https://newsletter.marting...
The structural obstruction of justice - by Martin Geddes
My experience of how the British court system is designed to fail and deny fair access
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01 November, 03:29
Autumn airs in County Durham.
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23 October, 12:01
My Judicial Review is live.
A fine enforced from a ghost court, a “little quo warranto” asking the State to show its paperwork — before the big one that questions the court itself.
Read: 🔗 https://newsletter.marting...
A fine enforced from a ghost court, a “little quo warranto” asking the State to show its paperwork — before the big one that questions the court itself.
Read: 🔗 https://newsletter.marting...
Issued! The "little quo warranto" before the "big one"
My Judicial Review claim, seeking due process before fine enforcement, is live
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19 October, 08:35
A well-attended rally in London yesterday against enforced state digital identity, I would say a few thousand people. https://newsletter.marting...
Digital ID London rally — civil liberties at risk
A photographic update on yesterday's protest against compulsory state digital identity
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