by AndersonsInfo 53 Replies latest watchtower medical
#1 Lawrence won the right to sue the doctors and is on more than solid ground not only for doing so but winning.
#2 He will be appealing this lower level judge's ruling for the right to continue suing Watchtower including David Gnam. This will continue keeping what they did to his daughter (whisking her away to a doctor giving her arsenic instead of standard transfusion treatment) in the eyes of the public.
I do hope he can somehow get a lawyer.
Calgary Sun - Sat, June 21, 2008
Brainwashing lawsuit tossed out
UPDATED: 2008-06-21 02:33:07 MST
By KEVIN MARTIN, SUN MEDIA
The lawsuit of a Calgary man who claimed his daughter was brainwashed into rejecting blood transfusions by members of her Jehovah's Witness church has been thrown out.
But Lawrence Hughes vowed yesterday to continue his fight and appeal the ruling of Court of Queen's Bench Justice Alan Macleod.
Macleod tossed out all portions of Hughes' claim against the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, Jehovah's Witness members, and lawyers who acted for his daughter and ex-wife.
The judge said a small portion of the lawsuit, against doctors at Edmonton's Cross Cancer Institute, could continue, because it had not been challenged.
Lawyer David Gnam, who was one of the defendants, said he was relieved his name has been cleared.
"Mr. Hughes was on national television ... claiming I murdered his daughter," noted Gnam. "Those were very regrettable claims against me as a lawyer."
Hughes' lawsuit alleged Gnam and others influenced his daughter Bethany to reject blood transfusions when she contracted leukemia -- a disease which took her life seven months later -- in February 2002, when she was 16.
Gnam helped the teen challenge a government court bid to force her into chemotherapy and transfusions, an application eventually won by the province.
He said he never tried to influence Bethany, saying as a lawyer his duty was to represent his client's interests. "There has been no evidence to support any claims against us as lawyers," Gnam said.
Macleod ruled Hughes' lawsuit could not succeed because it was clear Bethany's own deep-rooted religious convictions caused her to reject the concept of blood transfusions.
"Her strong belief system and her spiritual development gave her comfort."
http://calsun.canoe.ca/News/Alberta/2008/06/21/5946061-sun.html
