Courts increasingly behave like oracle machines: authoritative answers, no working shown.
What computer science reveals about the limits of law ⬇️
https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/oracle-machines-and-the-limits-of

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.martingeddes.com/p/why-institutions-keep-answering-the

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.martingeddes.com/p/when-it-happens-to-you-my-testimony

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.martingeddes.com/p/mistalitarianism-the-violence-of

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.martingeddes.com/p/one-case-forty-four-courts-zero-legitimacy

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.martingeddes.com/p/does-the-united-states-run-any-ghost

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.martingeddes.com/p/total-vires-management

🚨 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.martingeddes.com/p/the-vires-failure-spectrum

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.martingeddes.com/p/vague-flag-how-provenance-collapse

🚨 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.martingeddes.com/p/lexworthiness-the-new-word-that-could

Scottish life.

Visiting friends in Scotland.

🚨 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.martingeddes.com/p/habeas-courtus-how-ai-exposed-a-ghost

🚨 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.martingeddes.com/p/modelling-the-void-a-breakthrough

Enjoying the Lumiere Festival in Durham ten days ago.

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.martingeddes.com/p/infinivoids-and-the-ontological-woodpecker

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.martingeddes.com/p/to-void-is-human-to-ultravoid-requires

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.martingeddes.com/p/beware-the-fotl

This one may unsettle a few institutions…

🚨 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.martingeddes.com/p/42-minutes-of-public-law-formal-verification

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.martingeddes.com/p/computational-jurisprudence-and-the

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.martingeddes.com/p/what-the-justices-clerks-society

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.martingeddes.com/p/tips-on-using-ai-to-aid-legal-drafting

A night in Newcastle.

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.martingeddes.com/p/citizen-digital-statesmanship-the

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

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.martingeddes.com/p/the-structural-obstruction-of-justice

Autumn airs in County Durham.

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.martingeddes.com/p/issued-the-little-quo-warranto-before

A well-attended rally in London yesterday against enforced state digital identity, I would say a few thousand people. https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/digital-id-london-rally-civil-liberties