Statement on Court Costs

20 August 2025

The NZDSOS Incorporated Society has incurred significant court costs following two recent legal cases. NZDSOS has to abide by the court rulings and is undertaking a robust fund-raising campaign to its membership and the wider public.

The costs apply to the joint action with Fluoride Free NZ (FFNZ) in filing for an injunction against the Hastings District Council resuming fluoridation of the district’s water supply and against the Medical Council of New Zealand (MCNZ) and the Dental Council (DC) for their use of the April 2021 Guidance Statement – “Covid-19 and your professional responsibility”. Whether doctors still had the ability to prescribe off-label medicines (with respect to ivermectin) was also subject to judicial review.

Both these cases were lost and costs were awarded against FFNZ and NZDSOS, with the judges stating that these cases were not in the public interest, and that Bill Of Rights issues were not relevant!  We have reported extensively on the MCNZ/DC and the Fluoride cases. 

We say that both of these cases were absolutely in the public interest and do not represent just the fringe views of minority groups.

Our costs amount to just over $100,000: to the MCNZ ($54K) and the DC ($35K) for the challenge of the Guidance Statement; and to the Crown for the Fluoride case ($22K shared with FFNZ). Court costs of $14K have already been paid to Hastings District Council.

Our Position

1. NZDSOS has been penalised for upholding medical ethics, especially those of informed consent and bodily autonomy. This is exemplified by the contrast between the Guidance Statement and the MCNZ’s own statement on informed consent.

2. The position of the MCNZ that the covid vaccines were “zero-risk” is biologically and medico-legally impossible and brings the medical profession into disrepute.

3. There are significant conflicts of interest at the MCNZ, some extending to international organisations such as the Federation of State Medical Boards, the International Association of Medical Regulatory Authorities and the WHO. See section “3.3.4 Global and Domestic Influence” in our evidence to the Royal Commission on Covid-19.

4. The MCNZ continues to witch-hunt doctors who upheld medical ethics, and treated covid patients with off-label medicines when these actions were in conflict with the government’s Pfizer contract.  Such persecution put the lives of the public at risk.

5. The MCNZ is no longer fit for purpose in its role as independent “protector of the public” as it has become an arm of the government, global organisations and corporates.

6. It is indisputable ( and courts agree) that fluoride is a medication; that the public is being mass-medicated and that few individuals are able to decline. Furthermore ample evidence exists indicating  significant brain-damage to children especially.

NZDSOS Will Not Be Silenced

Despite these costs, both monetary and professional, NZDSOS will not be silenced while people are harmed and even killed in the name of medicine and public health. If we do not pay the costs in full, the Society could be shut down.

Whilst rejecting the court judgements we have to acknowledge the costs. To meet our obligations we have made a down-payment of $20,000. We (and FFNZ) have settled with the Hastings District Council by paying $14,000. 

We are required to pay the remaining amounts to the Crown and Councils quickly.

We look forward to engaging with the public to fund raise, helping to send a message to the government that these issues ARE in the public interest, as people simply cannot be poisoned with impunity.

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