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ACT lawyers urged to join campaign - The Canberra Times
18 November 2011, 7:40 pm
By BIANCA HALL
An anti-psychiatric drugs group founded by the Church of Scientology has been trying to drum up business with ACT lawyers.
The Citizens Commission on Human Rights, which maintains it is an independent non-profit organisation, mailed lawyers on the ACT Supreme Court roll this week.
The two-page letter offered government and private lawyers an ''opportunity to increase [their] client base'' by acting in lawsuits against pharmaceutical drug companies.
The letter was accompanied by a DVD, Making a Killing: The Untold Story of Psychotropic Drugging, which disputes medical evidence about the effectiveness of psychiatric drugs and claims they kill 42,000 people each year....
...The accompanying letter suggested the new Australian Consumer Law standards, which came into effect in January, could ''open the door to product liability and misrepresentation lawsuits in respect of damage caused by psychotropic medications''.
But ACT Law Society president Noor Blumer said the Australian Consumer Law was simply the national codification of state and territory laws governing trade practices and the sale of goods.
''No new rights were established [and] there has been no new 'door opened' to lawsuits other than what already existed.'' Ms Blumer said the legal profession was often targeted by widespread, unsolicited mail campaigns.
One government lawyer who received the letter said she and her colleagues were irritated at the suggestion they were in the business of trying to ''increase the client base'' of their legal practices.
''It was such a blatant appeal to what they clearly see as the avarice of lawyers,'' she said.
Ms Wilkins said the group had rented a mailing list through a broker to conduct the mail-out, but would not say where the list came from, or who the broker was.
more at http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/local/news/general/act-lawyers-urged-to-join-campaign/2363438.aspx?storypage=1
mefree:
This CCHR strategy clearly backfired. The cult continues to be creepy.
ethercat:
Quote>>>>One government lawyer who received the letter said she and her colleagues were irritated at the suggestion they were in the business of trying to ''increase the client base'' of their legal practices.
''It was such a blatant appeal to what they clearly see as the avarice of lawyers,'' she said.<<<<
They clearly see avarice on the part of lawyers because that's what they themselves are like.
Quote>>>>She said the International Association of Scientology gave CCHR International grants to run exhibitions around the world, but the Australian arm was funded by donations.<<<<
Now why would the Australian arm be different? Why would they be funded by donations, when the IAS gave grants to the rest of the world's branches of CCHR?
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