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Mincoffs expands teams to enhance services

Mincoffs Solicitors strengthens its corporate and employment teams with two new solicitor appointments in Newcastle

What England’s World Cup defeat teaches litigators about momentum

England’s semi-final defeat offers litigators a sharp lesson in defensive posturing, calculated pressure and the danger of retreat

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.