A glance at other recent lawsuits suggests that all bad luck, and lots of bad feelings, are litigable.

"We think it raises privacy issues, but not litigable ones," said Lauren Siegel, director of public education for the American Civil Liberties Union.

"I have always said and I still maintain that most insider cases are litigable," said Harvey L. Pitt, a lawyer in the Washington offfice of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson.

I believe that as far as the judicial difficulties are concerned that we are facing here - and the European Union evidently has only very limited room for manoeuvre when it comes to making these offences litigable as European criminal offences - we have become embroiled in legalities.