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Caroline Timoney

Paul Hastings LLP
Caroline Timoney is a Legal Research Analyst in Paul Hastings’ London office. She was previously the Commercial Litigation & Civil Fraud Legal Researcher at Peters & Peters Solicitors LLP. Caroline studied Law at the University of Cape Town and completed a Master’s degree in International Law in 2015. Caroline worked for the political think tank Afro-Middle East Centre in Johannesburg before moving to London to work as a researcher in legal publishing. She has presented research at the International Network of Genocide Scholars’ Conference and published articles on Middle Eastern politics, fraud, and international law.

Practice Area

Panel

  • Contributing Author

Experience

  • Peters & Peters Solicitors LLP (2021 - 2024)
  • Law Business Research (2019 - 2020)
  • Chambers & Partners (2017 - 2018)
  • Afro-Middle East Centre (2016 - 2017)

Membership

  • Young Fraud Lawyers Association
  • International Legal Technology Association

Qualifications

  • BA, 2009
  • Honours, 2010
  • MPhil in International Law, 2015
  • LLB, 2016

Education

  • University of Cape Town

1 Contributions by Caroline Timoney

Criminal insider dealing: statutory defences to dealing, encouraging and disclosing offences under the Criminal Justice Act 1993, including market maker, market information, transaction facilitation and price stabilisation defences.
PRACTICE NOTES
Criminal insider dealing: statutory defences to dealing, encouraging and disclosing offences under the Criminal Justice Act 1993, including market maker, market information, transaction facilitation and price stabilisation defences.
This Practice Note sets out the statutory defences available in respect of the three criminal insider dealing offences under the Criminal Justice Act 1993 (CJA 1993): the ‘dealing offence’, the ‘encouragement offence’ and the ‘disclosing offence’. It should be read alongside Practice Note: Insider dealing—the criminal offence, which details the constituent elements of the three criminal insider dealing offences. For coverage of the civil/regulatory insider dealing framework, see Practice Note: UK Market Abuse Regulation—insider dealing. General defences The statutory defences applicable to the three criminal insider dealing offences appear in CJA 1993, s 53. The burden lies with the defence to demonstrate, on the balance of probabilities, that a defence is established. General defences to the dealing offence and encouraging offence There are three general defences available to the dealing offence or the encouraging offence...
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