dear friends,.
i wish to thank everyone who has helped me over the past nine years to fight the watchtower society in court.
as a result of your kind support there has been important legal precedents set, a tremendous amount of media coverage created and numerous magazine articles published to expose the watchtower society and many lives have been saved.
The mother and the father would benefit from the estate. I am not sure if Bethany's two sisters would or not. The mother has publically declared that she does not want any money. I would benefit from the estate. In the initial Statement of Claim I was also suing the Watchtower on my own behalf and that has since been dropped.
Lawrence
dear friends,.
i wish to thank everyone who has helped me over the past nine years to fight the watchtower society in court.
as a result of your kind support there has been important legal precedents set, a tremendous amount of media coverage created and numerous magazine articles published to expose the watchtower society and many lives have been saved.
Hi Hoffnung,
I am not sure how much money will be needed. It depends on which scenerio is choosen.
If I were to continue on my own, I would probably need at least $10,000 in the next month and $20,000 in three months from now. I have just been offered a good job and so I could probably handle most or all of the day to day expenses up until a month before the trial. Then, I would need money to pay for expert witnesses to come to Calgary to testify. The trial would be held in two or three years from now.
If someone wanted to buy the lawsuit, then it would depend of how much they pay a lawyer and whether they can find a lawyer to work pro bono or on contingency. There is always the slight chance that a lawyer will take the case on pro bono or contingency. This lawsuit is a high profile case and any lawyer who takes it on will become famous. A lawyer may wish to take it on to become famous. I estimate out of pocket expenses to be about $20,000 to go to trial. Then there is the cost of the lawyer which is a unknown. The court may require security of costs. I would guess that the security for costs would be about $30,000 to$50,000 .
Lawrence
dear friends,.
i wish to thank everyone who has helped me over the past nine years to fight the watchtower society in court.
as a result of your kind support there has been important legal precedents set, a tremendous amount of media coverage created and numerous magazine articles published to expose the watchtower society and many lives have been saved.
Band on the Run,
I believe that it is normal in a civil suit for the legal issues to be narrowed and more clearly defined. That is why parts of the lawsuit was strickened. The issues of "Conflict of Interest" and "Misrepresentation and Deceit " were dropped. The issue of " Consent " was kept in. The Statement of Claim included some defendants who were later dropped because the judge did not think there was sufficient evidence to warrant taking them to trial.
The newspapers usually get some of the facts wrong. That is why the old saying " you can't beleive everything you read in a newspaper". Sometimes they get the story completely wrong.
Not all the facts have been written in my postings. There is over nine years of litigation and collection of information ( about 50 file boxes full) . Also, alot of the defendants have not yet been examined in discoveries.
What do you mean by a Phone Bank?
Lawrence
dear friends,.
i wish to thank everyone who has helped me over the past nine years to fight the watchtower society in court.
as a result of your kind support there has been important legal precedents set, a tremendous amount of media coverage created and numerous magazine articles published to expose the watchtower society and many lives have been saved.
Hi Drewcoul,
I have contacted almost every lawfirm in Calgary. The lawfirms are only interested in representing a party on a contingency basis if they are absolutely convinced they will win. I am not suing on my own behalf but on the behalf of Bethany's estate. If the lawsuit is sucessfull, then I believe the damages that would be awarded to me could go to the person or persons who buy the lawsuit.
Hi Band on the Run,
I do not hate Jehovah's Witnesses. I love Jehovah Witnesses. I have family members who are Jehovah Witnesses. I feel sorry for Jehovah Witnesses. I want to help them and prevent them from bleeding to death.
In recent threads, I did go into alot of detail about the facts of the case. I do not wish to bore people today with repeating the same information. I will just mention a few facts of the case. The issue before the courts is whether Bethany was capable of giving informed consent. As you may know the Watchtower Society , its lawyers and HLC members use co-ercion, intimidation, pressure and give inaccurate information about medical treatments.
The doctors performed a battery of tests which showed that the desease was in remission. Bethany was scheduled to be discharged from the hospital when skin cancer was discovered on her back. The Head of Oncology testified in court, that the skin cancer was not life threatening and could be treated with radiation on an outpatient basis.
Shane Brady, a Watchtower lawyer, sent a letter to Dr. Robert Turner asking him to treat Bethany with arsenic. The Watchtower lawyers convinced Bethany and her mother that arsenic would cure her skin cancer, took her into hiding and arranged for her to be fed the arsenic. According to the medical records, the arsenic gradually killed off the blood cells over a period of two months. Bethany went blind and the next day died of congestive heart failure. The World Expert of Pediatric Oncology, Dr. Arceci has testified in court that arsenic is not a cure for skin cancer and that Bethany would most likely be alive today if she had received proper medical treatment. The Defendants are saying that the leukemia returned. There is no evidence to support that claim. All the physical evidence proves that the leukemia was in remission. Even if the leukemia had returned, which it did not, Dr. Arceci has testified that arsenic is not a cure for that type of leukemia either.
A panel of three justices at the Court of Appeal has decided unnanimously that there is sufficient evidence for this lawsuit to proceed to trial. The panel were noticably upset with the Watchtower lawyers giving Bethany medical advice and being involved with Bethany's treatments and hiding Bethany and refusing to tell Child Welfare or myself where they were hiding her.
Ofcourse, any and all documents will be available for any prospective buyer or their lawyer to examine. I would be happy to email you the Statement of Claim, etc. Please email me at [email protected]. I have not been able to find an electronic version of the Statement of Claim. If you explain to me how to copy and paste a pdf onto this thread, then I will do so.
Thankyou for your comments and suggestions.
Lawrence
dear friends,.
i wish to thank everyone who has helped me over the past nine years to fight the watchtower society in court.
as a result of your kind support there has been important legal precedents set, a tremendous amount of media coverage created and numerous magazine articles published to expose the watchtower society and many lives have been saved.
Hi Mickey,
If the court costs are not payed soon, I will be forced to end the lawsuit. If someone is interested in buying the lawsuit and if they qualify to buy it, then I will spend the time and money to try and make that arrangement happen.
Lawrence
dear friends,.
i wish to thank everyone who has helped me over the past nine years to fight the watchtower society in court.
as a result of your kind support there has been important legal precedents set, a tremendous amount of media coverage created and numerous magazine articles published to expose the watchtower society and many lives have been saved.
Dear Friends,
I wish to thank everyone who has helped me over the past nine years to fight the Watchtower Society in court. As a result of your kind support there has been important legal precedents set, a tremendous amount of media coverage created and numerous magazine articles published to expose the Watchtower Society and many lives have been saved.
For a long time, I have been mentioning to you that there are outstanding court costs that have to be paid. I am very saddened to have to tell you that on July 15th, I will be forced to file at the court house a " Discontinuance " of the lawsuit. It is very painfull for me to have to do this. I have always believed that this lawsuit could be the vehicle by which that you and I could put an end to the Watchtower Society's ban on blood transfusions and perhaps be a catalyst in putting the Watchtower Society out of buisness. How long will the Watchtower Society continue to destroy families and cause the death of Jehovah Witnesses? How many more Jehovah Witnesses will have to bleed to death? How many more children will be taken away from parents in child custody cases because that parent could no longer live a lie and continue to go to meetings? The atrocities that the Watchtower Society commits against your family and the human family each day continues. When will it end? Over the next two weeks you can still make a difference and help me. To do so contact me at:[email protected] or visit :www.watchtowerlawsuit.com
The lawsuit is also for sale for $1.00.
- 80% of the work has been done.
- damages that could be awarded if you win is about one million dollars.
- a panel of three justices at the Court of Appeal unanimously decided that this lawsuit could go to trial.
- I believe the chance of winning is about 50/50. That is better odds than the lotto or gambling at Vegas.
- one of the expert witnesses who has testified on behalf of the lawsuit is the World Expert of Pediatric Oncology. This expert literally wrote the book on the desease my daughter had.
- the only thing left to do is prepare and go to trial.
- I believe one person or a group of persons could purchase this lawsuit.
- if anyone is interested then please contact me before July 15th, 2011. If you wish for me to phone you then email me your phone number with when is a good time to call and what time zone you are in.
Thanks again,
Yours truly,
Lawrence Hughes
dear friends,.
i would like to thank those who have helped me.
as a result, important legal precedents have been made and a lot of media coverage has been made which has exposed the watchtower society.
The Watchtower lawyers came up with about ten different alternative treatments which they said offered Bethany a much better chance of a cure without using blood transfusions. The doctors and the court considered these alternative treatments and decided that they did not offer a cure. Then the lawyers arranged for Bethany to receive arsenic. I would say the lawyers dispensed a lot of medical advice. That was one of the things that the Alberta Court of Appeal kept hammering the lawyers about.
The world expert of Pediatric Oncology, Dr. Arceci, is one of my expert witnesses and who has testified that arsenic is not a cure for skin cancer or AML subtype M1 and that it would not be used for palliative care. He would also tesify that to administer arsenic to Bethany without blood support would and did cause her death. So I guess the question is WHY did they use arsenic ?
Lawrence
dear friends,.
i would like to thank those who have helped me.
as a result, important legal precedents have been made and a lot of media coverage has been made which has exposed the watchtower society.
I filed an Amended Statement of Claim in response to the Alberta Court of Appeal decision. Then there was a court hearing before Justice Alan McLeod for him to review the changes and make any revisions. The Justice then issued a Court Order for any revisions. I have since filed an appeal to that Order.
Lawrence
dear friends,.
i would like to thank those who have helped me.
as a result, important legal precedents have been made and a lot of media coverage has been made which has exposed the watchtower society.
Hi jgnat,
Thanks for finding the Court of Appeal decision. Although I have read this many times, I still find it difficult to understand. Of particular significance, is probably paragraph 15, last sentence, all of paragraph 16 and the first two sentences of paragraph 17.
The issue of consent was restored by the Court of Appeal. The doctors, Cross Cancer Institute, Gnam and Brady are still Defendants. The Watchtower Society has been dropped as a Defendant but it is still tied to the lawsuit by way of vicarious liability. The HLC members Morrell and Bokor have been dropped. The Statement of Claim has been amended to reflect this.
I guess it is not uncommon in a lawsuit, for the legal issues to be narrowed and for some defendants to be dropped.
I do not agree with the issue of conflict of interest being dismissed. I felt there was plenty of evidence to proof a conflict of interest with the Watchtower lawyers representing Bethany, her mother, and the Watchtower Society at the same time in the same action in regards to a life and death situation. I was not alone on that opinion and was represented by Osler LLP, one of the largest law firms in Canada, at the Supreme Court of Canada. Unfortunately, the SCC only chooses a small percentage of cases to hear.
Lawrence
dear friends,.
i would like to thank those who have helped me.
as a result, important legal precedents have been made and a lot of media coverage has been made which has exposed the watchtower society.
Hi Juan,
When I tried to open the PM there was an error message. You can email me at [email protected]
Hi Nickolas,
After I scan the newspaper article, how do I paste it onto this thread?
Hi Band on the Run,
I have had similar difficulties finding a lawyer. Most firms I went too wanted about $50,000 to do a risk assessment to determine whether the odds were in their favour to win. That does not mean that they will actually take the case but that it will cost $50,000 to find out. That is with me paying them by the hour if they decide to take the case. I don't see what risk there is for them. I agree that if I had a big fat trust fund or a suitcase full of money that I would have no problem finding a lawyer.
Lawrence
