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Prediction markets and the insider trading threat

Divergent regulation of prediction markets is creating uncertainty while exposing businesses to new and difficult insider trading risks

Stock v Neal: Thomas the Tank Engine royalties are trust capital, High Court rules

Awdry settlement royalties held capital, not income, in trustees' hands against HMRC's case.

Waithaka v Barclays: EAT restores struck-out race discrimination claim after 15-month tribunal delay

Continuing act strike-out set aside as perverse; article 6 delay ground fails.

Tangent Properties v Evans Homes: unjust enrichment claim time-barred as basis failed in 2016

Failure of basis ran from denial of contract, not from later realisation of profits.

Girboiu v Vrancea Tribunal: warrant read as a whole supplies missing dishonesty for dual criminality

Romanian code provisions cited in the warrant count towards the conduct, High Court holds.

Windhorst v ADS Securities: Court of Appeal upholds 18-month suspended committal and positive conditions

Part 71 rules do not constrain the court's inherent contempt jurisdiction, appeal judges hold.

Together Commercial Finance v Slack: receivers free to sell despite mental health crisis moratorium

Third party charge secured company debt only, so breathing space did not bite.

Kluz-Burton v Regional Court in Warsaw: Divisional Court upholds extradition despite ministers' election-eve statements

Political comment aimed at prosecutors, not the court, leaves Polish warrant valid.