Cover Letter

Jason : (family Tyldesley)

Zen Jungle Retreat, Wooda Lakes, Pancrasweek, Devon, EX22 7JN

Non-Domestic, Non-Corporate

22 August 2025

Served by special delivery upon:

Mr Alessandro Roveri

Head of Legal Operations (South West) Justices’ Clerk

North and East Devon Magistrates’ Court (Code 1300)

Barnstaple Magistrates' Court 

North Walk 

Barnstaple 

Devon 

EX31 1DU

And :

Legal Services Department & Steve Hearse (CEO)

North Devon Council (Torridge District Council)

Riverbank House

Bideford

Devon

EX39 2QG

Re: Case Nos. 502500030055 (Individual)

& 502500030128 (Company)

NOTICE OF DEFAULT, COURT OF RECORD, AFFIDAVIT OF TRUTH, CERTIFICATE OF DEFAULT JUDGMENT, AND NOTICE OF PRIVATE TRUST

Dear Sir/Madam,

Please find enclosed my Notice of Default, Court of Record, Affidavit of Truth, Certificate of Default Judgment, Notice of Private Trust, and Intent to Enforce with full chronology and appendices.

This Notice:

1. Establishes a Court of Record by sworn affidavit and unrebutted notices, which stand as truth in law.

2. Certifies default of Torridge District Council and the court, for failure to rebut repeated challenges to jurisdiction, joinder, consent, proof of injured party, and trespass.

3. Declares judgment by default on the record.

4. Sets intent to enforce through County Court proceedings, private liens, and further invoices for trespass and dishonour.

5. Directs the Clerk that this Notice and its appendices are to be filed into the record.

6. Requires that the attached Short Form Statement (Section IX of the Notice) be read into the record at the outset of any listed hearing, including that of 26 August 2025, in my absence.

7. Gives notice of trust: As of 27 June 2025, Zen Jungle Retreat Ltd and all personal assets of the living man have been settled into a Private Irrevocable Express Trust. Any attempt to treat those assets or the company as if they were not trust property is trespass upon the trust.

The hearing presently listed on 26 August 2025 cannot lawfully proceed against the living man without first proving jurisdiction, joinder, consent, the existence of an injured party, and lawful standing over private trust property. None have been evidenced.

For the avoidance of doubt: I do not submit to the jurisdiction of the court; my sole purpose in sending this bundle is to establish the record, preserve honour, and enforce my rights.

Kindly confirm by return that this Notice has been entered into the record and placed before the bench.

Yours faithfully,

Jason : family Tyldesley 

A living man, without joinder to any legal fiction 

All rights reserved, without prejudice

COURT OF RECORD

NOTICE OF DEFAULT, AFFIDAVIT OF TRUTH, CERTIFICATE OF DEFAULT JUDGMENT, AND INTENT TO ENFORCE

To be filed into the court record and read in absence

Court: North & East Devon Youth Court, sitting at Barnstaple Magistrates’ Court 

Case Nos.: Individual – 502500030055 • Company – 502500030128 

Claimant: Torridge District Council and its agents 

Respondents:

• Legal person: “JASON BRIAN TYLDESLEY”

• Company: Zen Jungle Retreat Ltd

• Living man: Jason : family Tyldesley (appearing only to establish the record, without joinder)

  
  

Notices to Principal are Notices to Agent. Notices to Agent are Notices to Principal.Without prejudice. All rights reserved.

I. ESTABLISHMENT OF A COURT OF RECORD

1. By my sworn affidavits and notices, duly served and unrebutted, a court of record has been established.

2. In a court of record, unrebutted affidavit stands as truth in law. Silence is acquiescence.

3. The claimant and its officers have been afforded multiple opportunities to rebut, with clear deadlines. None have rebutted.

4. They stand in dishonour. Default is judgment in this court of record.

II. AFFIDAVIT OF TRUTH OF THE LIVING MAN

I, Jason : family Tyldesley, a living man of flesh and blood, competent to state the truth, do solemnly affirm:

1. I live by natural law, which grants inalienable rights: to live in peace, to be free from loss, harm, or interference, and to exercise my faculties freely.

2. These rights are inalienable — they cannot be surrendered, transferred, or nullified by statute or by another’s decree.

3. The legal person “JASON BRIAN TYLDESLEY” and the company Zen Jungle Retreat Ltd are corporate fictions created by statute. I am not those fictions.

4. For statute to attach to me, the living man, there must be joinder: a voluntary, explicit act of representation or surety. No such joinder exists or has been evidenced.

5. Jurisdiction has been formally challenged. No proof has been provided that statutory law binds a living man absent his consent.

6. Consent has been withheld. Licensing is the contractual gateway to statutory authority. To require a licence under penalty of “unlicensed activity” is coercion. Consent obtained by coercion is void.

7. No injured party: No man or woman has come forward claiming injury, loss, or damage arising from my actions. No breach of the peace is alleged. Therefore there is no cause at common law.

8. Trespass: On 10 July 2024, agents of the council entered land against clear trespass notices and without consent, photographing the private bar area. Their own correspondence admits this. This was trespass.

9. Silence: My prior notices and affidavits dated 18 Dec 2023, 5 Jun 2024, 24 Jun 2024, 4 Sept 2024, 21 Apr 2025, 11 Jun 2025, and 30 Jun 2025 stand unrebutted. Silence is acquiescence.

10. The record therefore shows unrebutted affidavit, dishonour, and trespass. By operation of law, default is judgment in this court of record.

11. I reserve all rights, and I do not consent to joinder with any legal fiction.

Statement of Truth: I believe the facts stated above are true.

Signed and dated today

III. THE TRUE MATTERS AT ISSUE

On the surface, this case has been presented as statutory “offences” — alleged sale of alcohol without licence, exhibition of films without licence, and failure to register food handling on 10 July 2024.

But these allegations are not the true issue.

1. Jurisdiction — The claimant asserts that statute applies irrespective of consent. Proof has been demanded and not given. Jurisdiction is unproven.

2. Joinder — Charges are laid against legal fictions. The living man is not those fictions. No joinder exists. Without joinder, statute cannot bind me.

3. Consent — Licensing is a mechanism of consent. Coercion to apply for a licence, or punishment for not applying, is coercion. Consent extracted under coercion is void.

4. Inalienable rights — To say statute binds without consent is to alienate rights that cannot be alienated. That claim is void.

5. No injured party — No man or woman has alleged harm, loss, or damage. No interference has been shown. No injured party exists.

6. Trespass — Council agents entered against notice on 10 July 2024, admitted in writing, and used photographs as evidence. This was trespass.

7. Knowing Trespass: Prior to 10 July 2024, the council and its officers were served with multiple notices and conditional acceptances requiring proof of jurisdiction and joinder (18 December 2023, 5 June 2024, 24 June 2024). No proof was ever supplied. Nevertheless, in correspondence dated 17 June 2024, officers threatened forced entry with police under statutory “powers of entry.” To assert statutory power after jurisdiction had been challenged and remained unproven is not proof but disregard. The subsequent entry on 10 July 2024 was therefore not only trespass but a knowing and aggravated trespass under colour of law.

   
   

Therefore: This case is not about licensing, alcohol, food, or films. It is about jurisdiction, joinder, consent, rights, and trespass.

IV. CERTIFICATE OF DEFAULT AND JUDGMENT

1. On 21 April 2025, a Jurisdictional Challenge and Affidavit of Truth was served. No rebuttal received.

2. On 11 June 2025, a Final Notice of Dishonour was served. No rebuttal received.

3. On 30 June 2025, a further Notice to the Clerk and Council CEO confirmed dishonour and default. No rebuttal received.

   
   

Certificate:

• The claimant and court officers are in dishonour.

• Default is established.

• In this court of record, default is judgment.

V. SCHEDULE A — FULL INTERLEAVED CHRONOLOGY

19 Oct 2023 — Council visit (Licensing & Police)

• Claim: Officers attended uninvited and discussed licensable activities.

• Burden: Council to prove lawful basis for attendance.

20 Nov 2023 — Council letter (Licensing, Chris Parkhouse)

• Claim: Alcohol licence and food registration required; statute applies regardless of consent.

• Burden: Council to prove statute binds absent consent.

18 Dec 2023 — Response (Notice to Licensing)

• Action: Conditional Acceptance; demand proof of jurisdiction; trespass warning.Burden: Council to rebut or stand in dishonour.

17 May 2024 — Council letter (Licensing)

• Claim: Notice of inspection 13 June 2024, 12:00.

• Burden: Council to justify power of entry.

20 May 2024 — Council letter (Food, Julie Mann)

• Claim: Food registration required; inspection set 13 June, citing entry powers.

• Burden: Council to prove applicability.

20 May 2024 — Council letter (Water, Peter Dryland)

• Claim: Private Water Supplies regime applies; inspection 13 June.

• Burden: Council to prove jurisdiction.

5 Jun 2024 — Responses (to Food, Water, Licensing)

• Action: Conditional Acceptance; trespass liability (£10,000) noticed.

• Burden: Council to prove lawful authority.

17 Jun 2024 — Council letter (Phil Gilbert, Community Safety)

• Claim: Statute applies without consent; notice of visit 10 July 2024 at 11:00; warrant/force threatened.

• Burden: Council to prove authority and necessity.

24 Jun 2024 — Response (to Community Safety)

• Action: Rebuttal; aggravated trespass warning; demand proof.

• Burden: Council to rebut or dishonour.

10 Jul 2024 — Council trespass visit

• Action: Officers attended against notice, took photographs.

• Burden: Council to justify entry as lawful.

25 Jul 2024 — Council letter (Gilbert)

• Claim: Admits 10 July attendance; threatens legal action.

• Burden: Council to show authority.

4 Sept 2024 — Response (to Gilbert)

• Action: Memorialises trespass; demands names of attendees; estoppel.

• Burden: Council to disclose and rebut.

21 Apr 2025 — Jurisdictional Challenge bundle

• Action: Affidavit of Truth; Notice to prove jurisdiction, consent, joinder; trespass invoice.

• Burden: Court/council to rebut or default.

3 Jun 2025 — Court summonses (individual & company)

• Claim: Charges tied to 10 July 2024; “must attend or case proceeds in absence”; mis-citation defect noted.

• Burden: Prosecution to prove jurisdiction, joinder, and facts.

11 Jun 2025 — Final Notice of Dishonour

• Action: Default certified; names demanded; refusal to attend without proof.

• Burden: Court/council to cure default.

20 Jun 2025 — Amended summons (company)

• Claim: Adjourned to 26 Aug; charges expanded.

• Burden: Prosecution to prove facts and reconcile inconsistencies.

30 Jun 2025 — Final Notice to Clerk & CEO

• Action: Consolidated dishonour; directed compulsory filing; certified default.

• Burden: Court/council to rebut or be bound.

26 Aug 2025 — Hearing date listed (forthcoming)

• Note: No further communication from court since 20 June 2025.

• Burden: Court to prove jurisdiction before proceeding.

VI. INTENT TO ENFORCE

As judgment is established in this court of record:

1. Recognition: This Notice and chronology constitute the full court of record.

2. County Court enforcement: Enforcement will proceed in the County Court for recovery of trespass penalties and damages.

3. Liens: Private liens will be applied against named officers personally for trespass and dishonour.

4. Invoices: Further invoices will issue for aggravated trespass and dishonour.

5. Dismissal: All statutory proceedings against the living man are void ab initio for want of jurisdiction, joinder, consent, injured party, and proof of harm.

VII. NOTICE OF PRIVATE TRUST

1. On 27 June 2025, Zen Jungle Retreat Ltd and all personal assets of the living man were settled into a Private Irrevocable Express Trust.

2. Trustees hold legal title and beneficiaries hold equitable interests. The living man is not personally liable for trust property.

3. Any claim or presumption by the council or court attempting to attach to those assets, or to the company as if it were un-settled property, is a trespass upon the trust.

4. Proof is required of: (a) lawful jurisdiction over the trust; (b) consent of trustees; and (c) the existence of an injured party with standing to make a claim against the trust.

5. No such proof has been provided. Therefore, all proceedings against the company or estate are void for want of standing.

6. Trespass and dishonour before settlement remain enforceable by me, the living man.

7. As of 27 June 2025, the company and estate are trust property. Trespass against trust assets is enforceable by the trustees.

8. Any interference with the trust is trespass upon the trust itself, and officers will be held personally liable.

VIII. DIRECTION TO THE CLERK

To the Justices’ Clerk:

• File this Notice into the record in full, with appendices.

• Minute that a court of record exists, and default stands as judgment.

• At any hearing, if I am absent, read the following Short Form Statement into the record.

IX. SHORT FORM STATEMENT

“A court of record has been established by sworn affidavits, unrebutted.

All claims have been conditionally accepted in honour subject to proof. No proof has been provided.

Jurisdiction has been challenged and remains unproven. Consent remains unproven. 

Joinder between the living man and the legal fictions remains unproven.

No injured party, no harm, no loss has been shown. Leaving the case for want of cause.

Therefore, no claim can lawfully attach to the living man, and proceedings are void ab initio.

Lawful Maxim : Quod ab initio non valet, in tractu temporis non convalescit: 

what is void from the beginning cannot be made valid by time.

The company and estate are held in private trust; any interference is trespass upon the trust.

The claimant and court stand in dishonour. Enforcement proceeds privately.”

X. APPENDICES

• Schedule A – Full interleaved chronology.

• Appendix B – Key council correspondence: 20 Nov 2023 Parkhouse; 17 Jun 2024 Gilbert (10 July visit notice); 25 Jul 2024 Gilbert (admission of visit); 3 Jun 2025 summonses; 20 Jun 2025 amended summons.

• Appendix C – Respondent’s notices & affidavits: 18 Dec 2023; 5 Jun 2024 notices; 24 Jun 2024 notice; 4 Sept 2024 notice; 21 Apr 2025 Jurisdictional Challenge; 11 Jun 2025 Dishonour; 30 Jun 2025 Final Notice.

• Appendix D – Trespass notices, costs schedule, invoices, and evidence:

  • D1 – Trespass Notices served (5 Jun 2024).

  • D2 – Schedule of Costs (as of 22 Aug 2025, total £50,000).

  • D3 – Invoice JT-2025-001 (22 Aug 2025, demand £50,000).

  • D4 – Evidence (council’s photos, letters admitting trespass).

• Appendix E – Proof of service (postal receipts, email confirmations).

XI. COMPETENCE OF STATUTORY FORUM

1. The present matter has been listed in a Magistrates’ Court, which is a statutory tribunal created under the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980.

2. Such a forum operates solely by statute and cannot step outside statute to adjudicate matters of jurisdiction, consent, or joinder, as these questions lie beyond its statutory remit.

3. A statutory forum is therefore not competent to determine whether statute applies to a living man, nor can it compel appearance absent proof of jurisdiction.

4. Any attempt to proceed without proving jurisdiction ab initio is ultra vires, void, and constitutes trespass upon the living man.

5. Lawful Maxim: Nemo potest mutare consilium suum in alterius injuriam — no one can change his purpose to the injury of another. A statutory court cannot enlarge its own powers at the expense of a living man.

Closing

Signed: Jason : family Tyldesley, a living man, without joinder.

Date: 22 August 2025

All rights reserved. Without prejudice.

APPENDIX D2 - SCHEDULE OF COSTS & PENALTIES

Jason : family Tyldesley

Zen Jungle Retreat, Wooda Lakes, Pancrasweek, Devon, EX22 7JN 

Date: 22 August 2025

Schedule of Costs (as of 22 August 2025)

TOTAL DUE (pre-trust personal enforcement): £50,000

Further trespass or dishonour post-27 Jun 2025 will accrue at £25,000 per occurrence as trespass upon the trust, enforceable by trustees.

Signature: ___________________________

Jason : family Tyldesley, A living man, without joinder

APPENDIX D3

INVOICE

Invoice No: JT-2025-001 Date: 22 August 2025

From: Jason : family Tyldesley, a living man Zen Jungle Retreat, Wooda Lakes, Pancrasweek, Devon, EX22 7JN 

To: Chief Executive & Head of Legal Torridge District Council Riverbank House Bideford Devon EX39 2QG

Description of Charges

1. Aggravated Trespass – 10 July 2024 uninvited entry and photographing of private bar area – £10,000

2. Continuing Trespass Admission – 25 July 2024 letter admitting visit – £5,000

3. Dishonour of Affidavit – Failure to rebut 21 April 2025 Jurisdictional Challenge – £10,000

4. Dishonour of Final Notice – Failure to rebut 11 June 2025 Dishonour Notice – £10,000

5. Further Dishonour – Failure to rebut 30 June 2025 Final Notice – £10,000

6. Threat of unlawful process – Ongoing threats to proceed in absence – £5,000

Total Due (pre-trust personal enforcement): £50,000

Payment Terms

• Payable within 14 days of invoice date.

• Payment to be made in lawful money (pounds sterling) to the following account, held in the name of the legal person JASON BRIAN TYLDESLEY, used solely for settlement purposes:

Payee: Jason : family Tyldesley (via account in name of legal person JASON BRIAN TYLDESLEY) 

• Bank Details redacted
  

  • Failure to pay will result in enforcement by way of County Court claim and private lien against the personal liability of officers.

Notice of Trust

As of 27 June 2025, Zen Jungle Retreat Ltd and all personal assets of Jason : family Tyldesley are settled into a Private Irrevocable Express Trust. Any further trespass or dishonour occurring after this date will incur a penalty of £25,000 per occurrence as trespass upon the trust, enforceable by trustees.

Signed and dated today.

Jason : family Tyldesley

A living man, without joinder

APPENDIX D4

TRESPASS EVIDENCE – COUNCIL’S OWN RECORDS AND ADMISSIONS

1. Photographic Evidence

On 10 July 2024, officers of Torridge District Council entered private land against clear trespass notices and without consent. They proceeded to take detailed photographs of the private bar area. These photographs appear in the council’s own case bundle.

2. Visit Notes and Statements

The council’s case bundle contains written notes and witness statements linked to the 10 July 2024 visit, naming the following officers:

• Phil Gilbert – Public Health & Community Safety Manager (signatory of both the advance notice of 17 June 2024 and admission of 25 July 2024).

• Matthew Rowe – identified in case notes as present on site.

• Chris Parkhouse – Licensing Officer, identified in case notes as present on site and signatory of related correspondence.
  

3. Chronology of Conditional Acceptances Prior to the Visit

• 18 December 2023 – Initial rebuttal and notice to council officers: jurisdiction challenged, proof demanded.

• 5 June 2024 – Trespass Notices served: conditional acceptance in honour, requiring proof of jurisdiction, authority, and joinder.

• 24 June 2024 – Reinforcement of notices: dishonour warned if jurisdiction unproven.
  

At all times before 10 July 2024, the council was on notice that statutory authority could not lawfully be presumed, and proof was required.

4. Threats of Statutory Entry and Forced Access

• In the 17 June 2024 letter, Phil Gilbert explicitly threatened: “Multiple officers will be visiting … to investigate a number of regulatory areas … should you refuse access, a warrant may be sought, and entry will be forced with police support if necessary.”

• This was asserted without proof of jurisdiction despite direct conditional acceptances already being served.
  

5. Conflicts in Statements (Head-count Inconsistency)

6. Evidential Summary

• The trespass is admitted by the claimant’s own records and photographs.

• Named officers connected to the trespass:

  • Phil Gilbert

  • Matthew Rowe

  • Chris Parkhouse

• The number of attendees is contradictory across documents: “multiple officers” in advance, “two officers” in some statements, and three individuals named elsewhere.

• Officers relied on statutory powers of entry and threatened forced entry, despite being on notice that jurisdiction, authority, and joinder were challenged and unproven.
  

  
  

7. Conclusion

The claimant’s own documents establish beyond dispute that a trespass occurred on 10 July 2024. The officers involved were acting without consent, against posted notices, and without lawful authority. They had been placed on notice multiple times that proof of jurisdiction was required and none was supplied.

To respond to a jurisdictional challenge by merely citing statutory “powers of entry” is not evidence but avoidance. Proceeding in this way constitutes a knowing trespass, aggravated by coercion under colour of law, and therefore unlawful and void ab initio.