Huge story unfolding at Warwick

by Crazyguy 50 Replies latest watchtower scandals

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  konceptual99

  The WTS is not badly advised when it comes to commercial and legal matters. They know exactly what they are doing and pay a lot of money to very good lawyers, engineers, architects and construction specialists.

  I cannot believe the WTS did not know that land they purchased was contaminated. There may be arguments about the extent of the problem or around the scope of some kind of prior disclosure but the WTS is very good at arguing the toss over details like this and winning.

  IMHO no JW is going to wake up to TTATT on the basis that Jehovah should have warned them, I don't think it's much of a scandal or a cover up. Things like this happen all the time in large scale property development. I wouldn't expect any other multi-million dollar global corporate to act any differently.
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  JeffT

  I worked in real estate for a long time. The only way to not know about a toxic problem on the property is for the seller to lie about it. They're required to disclose such things prior to the sale. My guess is the seller either lied about or did not themselves know about the extent of the problem. Time will tell.

  I agree with konceptual99, they have some smart people working for them. Even the GB aren't stupid enough to buy known contaminated land with the idea of making money by cleaning it up.
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  berrygerry

  . I wouldn't expect any other multi-million dollar global corporate to act any differently.

  The difference is that WT has a free lawyer pool at their beck and call.

  Makes a huge difference in your litigation (and response) strategy.
  
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  TheListener

  Have to review the old news articles but I thought the previous owner was a nickel plant or something and that the wts knew the land had contamination but were planning to build on the uncontaminated portion.

  I will need to read old news articles to refresh my knowledge.
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  konceptual99

  The difference is that WT has a free lawyer pool at their beck and call.
  Makes a huge difference in your litigation (and response) strategy.

  Is it free?

  Sure,they have the internal legal department and staff representative of every level of the law profession but AFAIK they employ external legal firms, especially when engaged in the highly commercial nature of large property deals.

  I get the point that if the cost of a legal process is low then starting proceedings is perhaps a more straight-forward commercial decision but I don't think there would be many large corporates who would be afraid of pushing forward with this litigation given the information available so far. Don't forget as well that they will also be paying for lots of reports to be produced by specialists. The legal element in preparing the ligation is only part of the work and costs required.
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  The Searcher

  Every "pilgrim" who visits the new HQ should just avoid salads and don't drink any water while there!
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  stan livedeath

  i was wrong--there is a god after all
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  notsurewheretogo

  Well considering a GB member said they were unsure if it was Jehoovers will to move there in the first place the average dub assumes that Jehoover doesn't tell these guys directly what to do or what not to do...they just do as they please and hope Jehoover blesses him.
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  Phizzy

  The biggest Project in the world that the JW's have at present is the new Brit H Q, on the site of an old car scrapyard at Chelmsford.

  That site must be pretty contaminated by old Catalytic convertors , Sump oil etc etc

  I think they will have built in the clean-up costs in the purchase price, which must have seemed reasonable to the Vendor, who probably did not realise they will get most of it done by voluntary labour.

  Crafty a ?
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  Brokeback Watchtower

  The Watchtower Corporation new business model: buy land that is/was toxic dump site around the world and clean them up before armageddon?