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Interest of JusticeThe Leeuwarden Files

THE LIBRARY · 59 ITEMS · SIX SHELVES

Every document, on its shelf

The whole record grouped the way lawyers read it — what the court decided, what each side argued, the evidence, the hearings. ★ marks the key documents to start with.

Court rulings & orders

What the judges decided, and the letters that set the rules of the fight.

Gates & jurisdiction★ KeyIoJ translation

Ruling — Gates stays in the case

The court rejects Gates's challenge and rules it has jurisdiction over him, because the claims against him are closely linked to those against Leeuwarden resident Hofstra. This is not a ruling on whether the claims are true.

Experts under oath★ KeyIoJ translation

Ruling — the request to hear experts under oath is refused

The court's decision refusing the three applicants' request to question five experts under oath, with costs awarded against the applicants. It closed off this route at first instance and led to the appeal.

Main case★ KeyIoJ translation

Ruling — oral hearing ordered, wider claim allowed, experts not heard

The court's judgment on the procedural points. It admits the claimants' widened claim, refuses a preliminary hearing and refuses to hear party experts or witnesses at the hearing, and orders an in-person oral hearing with all parties present.

Main case★ Key

Ruling — 30 minutes per side, 5 hours for the hearing

An interim ruling (a decision on procedure, not the merits) that set the ground rules for the 22 October 2026 hearing. The court refused the claimants' request for 120 minutes and set deadlines for any new documents.

The appeal★ KeyIoJ translation

Ruling — appeal inadmissible, never decided on the merits

The final ruling in the appeal. The court held the legal bar on appeal applies and no exception exists, so it never examined whether the experts should have been heard.

Main case★ Key

A week before the hearing, the court lets the experts' video in

The court changes course and admits the separately submitted video testimony of the experts (about 3 h 19 min — Latypova, Yeadon, Fitts and Sansone), to be filed on 21 October. The defendants may respond after the hearing.

Gates & jurisdiction

Court orders a short hearing on jurisdiction, one judge

An interim judgment ordering an oral hearing on Gates's jurisdiction challenge. The court refuses the claimants' requests for four hours of speaking time and a full three-judge bench.

Main case

Court refuses the claimants' filing for now, orders written rounds

A short procedural order (a 'roll decision', a scheduling ruling) from the full three-judge bench. It refuses the claimants' 11 December filing as premature, says written replies come first, and asks whether the deceased claimant's heirs will continue her case.

Main caseIoJ translation

Ruling — the case continues in the late claimant's name

A short interim ruling (in Dutch) on two housekeeping issues — whether the case was ever put on hold after claimant 6 died, and how long the claimants get to write their reply. It keeps the late claimant in the case and sets the next deadline.

Experts under oathIoJ translation

Court schedules the evidence hearing for 9 July 2025

A one-page letter (in Dutch) from the court clerk to the claimants' lawyer setting the hearing date for the separate request by three other people to have experts heard under oath. It opens the 'second case' track that later went to appeal in Amsterdam.

Main case

Written rounds closed — court will first rule on procedural points

A short scheduling order after all replies and rejoinders were in. The court says it will first decide the procedural disputes by judgment, then set a date for the oral hearing.

Main case

Court offers three possible hearing dates in October 2026

A short court letter to the claimants' lawyer listing the three dates on which all parties and the court were free for the oral hearing. It narrowed the hearing to October 2026.

The appealIoJ translation

Amsterdam court summons parties to the 9 March hearing

The court's notice that it had received the defences and would hear the parties in person on 9 March 2026. The Dutch letter itself is missing from our set; this card is built from the English copy of the court's 20 January email quoted in the claimants' lawyer's reply.

Main case

Court sets the hearing — 22 October 2026 at 12.30

The court clerk's notice fixing the date and time of the oral hearing in the main case and naming the provisional three-judge panel.

The appeal

Amsterdam court sets the hearing rules — one hour each, livestream

The court's answer to the claimants' 22 January requests, with the timetable for 9 March. Paired with the foundation's press invitation for a press conference after the hearing.

Main case

Court — experts may sit in a side room; livestream allowed

The court's answer to the claimants' and the journalists' organisational requests. It set the experts' status at the hearing and announced a livestream.

Main case

Court sets the hearing timetable and livestream rules

The court's letter deciding who may join the hearing online, how the livestream will work, and the minute-by-minute timetable for 22 October 2026.

Main case

The court refuses the video; the claimants object

The court accepts the written evidence but rejects the video exhibit. The claimants' lawyer answers with a full objection citing the right to a fair trial (Article 6 ECHR), and a supplement on 1 October.

Main case

Next — the judgment

At the end of the hearing the presiding judge said the court would announce the date in advance, on its social media and rechtspraak.nl, and expected to rule between 9 December 2026 and the end of February 2027.

The claimants' filings

The summons and everything the seven filed after it.

Main case★ KeyIoJ translation

The summons — seven claimants sue seventeen defendants

The writ that started the case. Seven claimants allege that 17 defendants, as a group and one by one, misled them into taking Covid-19 injections they knew or should have known were not safe and effective.

Main case★ KeyIoJ translation

Claimants' reply — new exhibits and a wider claim against all 17

The claimants' main written answer to all six defences (about 50 pages, exhibits 92 to 146). It sets out their 'preferred reality' theory, folds in the refused December filing as Exhibit 105, and widens the claim. It also backs the separate request to hear experts under oath.

Main case

Claimant 6 dies; claimants ask to pause her part of the case

A deed (formal court filing) telling the court that claimant 6 died in October 2023 and asking for a pause under Article 225 while her heirs decide whether to continue. It also files proof that Gates and Bourla were served.

Gates & jurisdiction

Claimants answer the jurisdiction challenge

The claimants' reply to Gates's motion. They argue Dutch law, not the EU rules, applies, and that Dutch courts have jurisdiction because the harm happened in the Netherlands and the claims are linked.

Gates & jurisdictionIoJ translation

The claimants want four hours and three judges

Answering Gates's request for an oral hearing on jurisdiction, the claimants agree to a hearing but ask for four hours of speaking time and a chamber of three judges.

Main caseIoJ translation

Five requests to the court, including the OMT recordings

After the 1 May 2024 ruling, the claimants send the court five requests — correct that ruling, allow an interim appeal, order the State to produce the OMT recordings, say whether court officials have reported genocide (as the claimants allege), and provide security at hearings.

Main case

Claimants file vaccination records and try to widen their claim

A three-part filing for the 11 December 2024 court date — the claimants hand in their vaccination certificates, try to amend (widen) their claim to cover conduct after the July 2023 summons, and ask for a preliminary hearing. The court refused the filing at this stage, but later let it back in with the reply.

Main case

Claimants' lawyers tell the full bench its refusal has no legal effect

A letter from the claimants' lawyers to the three judges, challenging the 11 December refusal. They argue that widening a claim is the claimant's legal right, and they press again for a preliminary hearing on their biological-weapon argument.

Main case

Claimants ask to continue the late claimant's case and want 36 weeks

The claimants' answer to the court's December question about the deceased claimant, plus procedural requests. Their lawyers say they cannot trace her heirs, but argue the case can go on in her name, and they ask for 36 weeks to write their reply.

Experts under oath

Three applicants ask the court to hear five experts under oath

A separate petition by three other people who say they were harmed by Covid-19 injections. They asked the Leeuwarden court for provisional evidence (hearing evidence before a case), to question five experts under oath before deciding whether to join the main case or sue.

The appeal

Applicants appeal the refusal to hear their experts

The three applicants' appeal against the 20 August 2025 refusal, filed even though Dutch law normally bars an appeal here, plus a request for interim relief (a temporary order) to have the experts heard at once in public.

Main case

Claimants send the court expert videos and reports on a USB stick

A letter from the claimants' lawyer to the court filing video messages and written reports from five experts. On the claimants' account, these support their argument that the injections are a biological weapon. The letter asks for an early hearing and urges the judges to file a criminal complaint.

The appeal

Expert video statements sent to the Amsterdam appeal court

A cover letter sending the Amsterdam Court of Appeal five expert video messages and four written reports in the evidence appeal (case 200.360.223). The applicants say this evidence bears on whether their appeal is admissible.

Main case

Parties state their wishes for the oral hearing

After the 26 November 2025 interim ruling, every party filed a short statement (a 'deed') on speaking time, available dates and, for the claimants, the identity of claimant 7. These filings set up the fight over how long each side could speak and what role the claimants' experts could play.

The appeal

Claimants' lawyer asks Amsterdam court for time, experts, livestream

Stassen's email to the Court of Appeal setting out procedural requests for the 9 March hearing. It shows how the claimants wanted the admissibility hearing to become a hearing on the whole context of their case.

Main case

Claimants ask the court to fix its ruling and allow a livestream

An email from the claimants' lawyer asking the court to correct or add to its 11 March 2026 ruling, which he says left the experts' role undecided, and asking for a livestream of the hearing.

Main case

New evidence, including a four-and-a-half-hour "Video Plea"

Four weeks before the hearing, the claimants file supplementary submissions and an offer of evidence, with Exhibit 157 — a 4 h 36 min video of the oral plea and the experts' testimony, in English and Dutch, plus updated expert submissions.

The defence

What the State, Gates, Bourla, the journalists and Lareb's director say back, in their own words.

Main case★ KeyIoJ translation

The State, Rutte and officials reply — no conspiracy, no case

The joint defence of the Dutch State, Rutte, De Jonge, other ministers and officials, and Sijbesma. They deny every claim and ask the court to dismiss it, with costs.

Main case★ KeyIoJ translation

Pfizer CEO Bourla — vaccine safe, claims are conspiracy theory

The defence of Pfizer's CEO. He says the virus is real, the Pfizer vaccine met EU standards, and the claimants misread the Pfizer safety report. He chooses not to contest jurisdiction.

Main case★ KeyIoJ translation

Gates's defence — no deception, no proof, no causal link

After losing on jurisdiction, Gates answers the claims. He denies misleading anyone and argues the claimants have not proved vaccination, harm, or any link to his videos.

Main caseIoJ translation

Journalists Van Cann and Jansen — no personal liability for the news

The defence of the two editors-in-chief. They argue that editors are not personally liable for what their outlets publish, that press freedom covers the coverage, and that the claims lack proof.

Main caseIoJ translation

Lareb director Kant — batches were checked, no cover-up

The defence of Agnes Kant, director of Lareb, the Dutch centre that records suspected side effects. She denies lying about batch data and denies any cover-up.

Gates & jurisdiction

Gates challenges the Dutch court's jurisdiction

A preliminary motion in which Gates asks the court to declare it has no power to hear the claims against him, since he lives in the United States. He does not yet answer the claims themselves.

Experts under oath

Defendants oppose the request to hear the experts

The defendants' written answers to the three applicants' evidence request. The State led with a detailed defence; Bourla and Kant joined it, and Gates left the decision to the court.

Main case

Van Cann and Jansen — sue the outlets, not the editors personally

The written rejoinder (final written answer) of the two editors-in-chief at NOS and De Telegraaf. They argue the claimants have no case against them personally, that suing them is an abuse of rights, and that the claims threaten press freedom.

Main case

The State and officials — the claimants assume a 'fictitious reality'

The joint rejoinder of the Dutch State and the 11 named officials and ex-ministers it represents. The State says the reply builds an alternative reality from speculation, that no unlawful act or damage is shown, and that the proposed experts should not be heard.

Main case

Gates — no secret plan, and the Gates Foundation is not a party

Bill Gates's rejoinder (final written answer). He keeps his full defence, says the claimants link unrelated events into one narrative, and stresses that he is not the Gates Foundation and did not steer the WHO, NATO, the UN, the WEF or the EU.

Main case

Bourla — Comirnaty is safe and no batch was recalled for safety

The rejoinder (final written answer) of Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla, with exhibits. He adopts the State's rejoinder and says the claimants' studies are flawed. He denies any difference between batches, says no damage is shown, and says the proposed experts should not be heard.

Main case

Lareb's director Kant — no batch link to deaths, no cover-up

The short rejoinder of Agnes Kant, director of Lareb, the Dutch side-effects monitoring centre. She answers the claimants' allegations that Lareb covered up batch-linked harm and lacked capacity to handle reports.

The appeal

Defendants oppose the appeal on admissibility

Four written defences filed in the Amsterdam appeal against the refusal to hear the claimants' experts. On the court's instruction they argue only one thing — that the law bars this appeal and no exception applies.

Expert & witness evidence

The statements filed for the claimants by Latypova, Yeadon, Sansone for Boyle, Fitts and Watt.

Expert statements

Katherine Watt's video statement and 280-page memo for the court

Watt, an American paralegal and writer, recorded a video for the Leeuwarden judges summarising her written report, the St. Benedict Memo, on US and international vaccine and biodefence law. It is one of the expert submissions the claimants want tested in court.

Expert statements

Watt — key documents on FDA vaccine non-regulation

A five-page annotated list of historical records Watt says show US vaccine regulation is a show rather than real control. It supports her wider argument about how vaccines reached Europe.

Expert statements

Expert video statements sent to both courts

Short recorded statements by the claimants' nominated experts, plus Stassen's own video and Watt's written answers to a reporter. The claimants filed them with the Leeuwarden court and the Amsterdam appeal court on 7 December 2025 after both refused to hear the experts live.

Expert statements

Watt — reading guide, appeal memo and case presentation

Three public-education pieces Watt produced before the Amsterdam hearing — a memo for Stassen, a 35-page case reading guide, and a recorded slide presentation. Together they are the most complete English orientation to both cases, written from the claimants' side.

Expert statements

Watt's September 2026 statement for the October hearing

A 39-page statement Watt wrote for the 22 October 2026 main-case hearing, answering Stassen's 'questions you might expect from a judge' after the court refused to hear the experts. She sent it to Stassen for possible filing.

Hearings & transcripts

Every hearing in the case — the evidence request, Amsterdam, and 22 October.

Press & statements

Press releases and public statements around the case.

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