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HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 17 MARCH 1965
Issue II
Remimeo
HCO (DIVISION 1)
JUSTICE
STAFF HAT
RIGHTS OF A STAFF MEMBER, STUDENTS AND PRECLEARS TO JUSTICE
1. HCO is the Justice agency of Scientology and Scientologists in
addition to
other functions.
2. All matters of internal Justice in orgs. Committees of Evidence and
complaints are taken to the HCO personnel so indicated on the Org Board.
3. All Scientologists and staff members in accepting posts or membership
agree
to abide by the HCO Codes. These include the Justice Codes.
4. HCO Justice applies to all Scientology and Scientologists.
5. When we say Legal matters we mean outside law and law agencies such
as
attorneys, civil courts, suits, contracts and corporation and copyright
matters. This
comes under Division 3.
6. When we say JUSTICE we mean HCO, Division 1, Internal activities such
as
Committees of Evidence, internal enforcement and discipline. Scientology
Justice
safeguards the rights of Scientologists, prevents injustice, prevents
punishment by
whim, and brings order. Before the Justice Codes, discipline was
inequitable and often
unjust. The HCO Justice Codes bettered this by making offenses and
penalties known
and milder. HCO Justice prevents wrongful disgrace, demotion, transfer
or dismissal
and protects the staff member's reputation and job from being falsely
threatened.
7. In a Condition of Emergency assigned to a Department or org, staff
members
may be subjected to demotion, transfer or dismissal as the Assignment of
the
Condition of Emergency suspends the Justice Codes. There is no recourse,
then. In
addition, offenses may still be made the subject of Committees of
Evidence. The thing
to do is not get into such a state. Lessened traffic and other matters
all found on the
OIC charts of each week are the sole evidence used to assign a Condition
of
Emergency. A Condition of Emergency cannot be assigned unless these
graphs show a
declining condition.
8. When the org or department is not in a Condition of Emergency, the
protective Justice Codes are in full force.
9. A staff member who believes he has been falsely wronged (unless a
Condition of Emergency exists in his department or org) may request a
Committee of
Evidence of HCO with himself as an Interested Party and this must be
granted him. He
must however agree to abide by its findings. It can restore any lost pay
in cases of
injustice but not damages. No senior executive in the org may be named
as an
Interested Party in matters of recourse requested by a junior but below
the level of
Executive Councilman may be called as witnesses. An Executive Councilman
cannot be
called before any Committee of Evidence by anyone in his or her org
including other
Councilmen of that org. Only a senior org may call Executive Councilmen
of a junior
org before a Committee of Evidence and then only for a crime or high
crime and then
only in the premises of the senior org. Do not then seek to name
Executive
Councilmen as interested parties in any Committee of Evidence and do not
seek to
name any member of any senior org in any Committee of Evidence requested
by
anyone in an org junior to it.