Martin Geddes
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Martin Geddes
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Sabre-toothed typist.
A photo essay on one of the UK's oldest high-rise housing developments. https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/moss-heights-physical-comfort-spiritual
Moss Heights: physical comfort, spiritual cost
The post-war dream of your own home with central heating and hot water lost something essential in the process, and the result is an urban environment that has lost its humanity
https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/moss-heights-physical-comfort-spiritual
🎧 Designer Hospitality in a Post-Human World – a new essay exploring how the concept of hospitality in music (from Orbital to Autechre) translates to legal systems increasingly automated and abstract.
When courts become unlocatable, what happens to legitimacy?
Read here: https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/designer-hospitality-in-a-post-human
Designer hospitality in a post-human world
When systems exceed human limits, what do they owe the humans subjected to them?
https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/designer-hospitality-in-a-post-human
Modern money is enforceable promise.
Courts exist to enforce those promises.
What happens when promises scale faster than enforcement capacity?
New essay on ghost money → ghost courts:
https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/ghost-courts-are-downstream-of-ghost
Ghost courts are downstream of ghost money
Why modern justice thins as credit abstractions expand
https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/ghost-courts-are-downstream-of-ghost
Published today: Ghost lawyers (Mazur) and ghost courts (Geddes) — an analytical contrast of two structural attribution problems in English law. One arises in professional regulation, the other in the foundations of judicial authority.
If you’re interested in legality, constitutional traceability, and how courts manage the boundary between administrative convenience and fundamental authority, this article is for you.
👉 https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/ghost-lawyers-mazur-and-ghost-courts
Ghost lawyers (Mazur) and ghost courts (Geddes)
Attribution, authority, and the limits of legal convenience in English law
https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/ghost-lawyers-mazur-and-ghost-courts
Where does judicial power actually come from in high-volume court systems? A short, neutral briefing on statutory attribution and the Single Justice Procedure.
👉 https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/where-does-judicial-power-come-from
Where does judicial power come from? - by Martin Geddes
On attribution, statute, and the Single Justice Procedure
https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/where-does-judicial-power-come-from
I was fined, sought to clarify ‘which court?’ in JR, and was refused — then hit with £3,700 costs. Not because my claim was weak, but because asking foundational questions of State authority can be financially penalised. A quiet constitutional issue.
https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/369581-for-asking-which-court
£3,695.81 for asking “which court?” - by Martin Geddes
How costs are being used to deter constitutional challenges that ask basic questions about lawful authority
https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/369581-for-asking-which-court
A High Court has refused permission for my Judicial Review.
The outcome matters less than what the refusal reveals: a system that now permits enforcement based on assumed authority, not demonstrable judicial acts.
This isn’t about a parking fine. It’s about rule of law → rule by law.
🧵👇
https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/high-court-refusal-reveals-an-ambient
High Court refusal reveals an “ambient authority” model of “rule by law”
A Judicial Review is refused permission—exposing how classical rule-of-law principles are displaced by managerial enforcement without attribution or accountability
https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/high-court-refusal-reveals-an-ambient
Who Warrants the Warrant?
Courts issue warrants for coercion — but when judicial power is exercised by automated process, where does its legal authority come from?
I’ve now issued a High Court Part 8 claim asking that upstream constitutional question about the Single Justice Procedure.
📄 https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/who-warrants-the-warrant-a-meta-entick
Who warrants the warrant? A “Meta-Entick” challenge to the Single Justice Procedure
When judicial power is exercised by automated process, where does its legal authority come from?
https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/who-warrants-the-warrant-a-meta-entick
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
Why institutions keep answering the wrong question
A diagnostic framework for understanding how courts and public bodies actually reason
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
"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
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
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
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
One case. Forty-four courts. Zero legitimacy.
When simulation replaces law, court identity collapses and civil rights vanish
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
Does the United States run any “ghost courts”?
A tentative analysis of where the line lies—and who crosses it
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
Total vires management - by Martin Geddes
Why modern public institutions need a new discipline for legality in automated systems
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:
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https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/the-vires-failure-spectrum
The vires failure spectrum - by Martin Geddes
Why we need a new language for state power that has gone completely off the rails
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
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)
https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/lexworthiness-the-new-word-that-could
🚨 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
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.”
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
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
https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/modelling-the-void-a-breakthrough
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
Infinivoids and the ontological woodpecker
How a single formal insight collapses an entire rhetorical legal structure
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.
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https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/to-void-is-human-to-ultravoid-requires
To void is human; to ultravoid requires a computer
When the simulation of law becomes indistinguishable from the act
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…
Beware the “FOTL”! - by Martin Geddes
How name-calling is prejudicing legitimate constitutional challenges
https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/beware-the-fotl
🚨 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
42 minutes of Public Law Formal Verification
How AI equips ordinary people to validate the lawfulness of administrative acts
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
Computational Jurisprudence and the Algebra of Legality
At the frontier of law, everything degenerates into mathematics
https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/computational-jurisprudence-and-the
