Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology From: dennis.l.erlich@support.com Subject: Co$ loses major libel Message-ID: <9507230933.0DFS900@support.com> Organization: L.A. Valley College Public BBS (818)985-7150 X-Mailer: TBBS/PIMP v3.35 Distribution: world Date: Sun, 23 Jul 95 09:33:57 -0700 Lines: 48 Phil >wbarwell@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (William Barwell) wrote: > In article , Jon Noring wrote: > >In article lee@g9.rmc.ca (Haynes Lee) writes: > > > >>The largest libel award in Canadian history, a whopping $1.6 million > >>against the Co$ and Toronto lawyer Morris Manning, has been upheld > >>by the Supreme Court of Canada. > >> > >>The unaninmous judgement means that former crown attorney Casey Hill, > >>now an Ontario Court Judge, can collect more than $1.45 million from the > >>Co$ and $150,000 from Manning. > > > >I'd like to see CoS try and not pay this, ala Wollersheim! Mr. Hill and > >the Canadian government would not tolerate the type of asset hiding that > >was done to avoid paying the $4 million (plus) to Wollersheim in an > >analogous judgement here in the States. > > > >Now, if CoS and Morris Manning do pay the judgement, what are the > >ramifications/precedents? Pope(?): > Apparently they illicitly transferred assets just before they could be > found guilty. Now the question is, will the Canadian courts tolerate > the false games that Miscavige and Scientology played and are playing > with Wollersheim? Phil: >An earlier post today indicated that in order to take the case to the >canadian supreme court the CoS put up their 6 story landmark building >in Toronto.... if thats the case, the funds are secure. Kinda naive there, Phil. The building is undoubtedly mortguaged to the hilt. The scienos probably had negative equity in it. They're gonna see to it that the award is a large bag of air, just like they did with Wollersheim. It's their nature. +--------------------------------------+ Rev. Dennis L Erlich * * the inFormer * * dennis.l.erlich@support.com + inForm@primenet.com "tar baby"