A couple of thingsie the panel found him 'guilty' of the charge of failing or refusing to provide a sample he was facing. However, they also found that he bore 'no fault or negligence' due to the "truly exceptional circumstances of his case" and therefore he received no punishment. Those circumstances are not entirely clear but they appear to be based on the evidence of 2 psychiatrists, virtually all of which is redacted in the published judgement - I will not speculate on that evidence but if you do read the judgement some of the phrases used may lead you to form an opinion as to what those circumstances may be.

5 year contract with Wigan, strongly rumoured.

Seems to have landed on his feet again!

Does that include his 2 year ban?
And have Cas torn up his contract and sacked him otherwise they will rightly demand a hefty transfer fee?

His drugs ban makes his contract null & void.

The Wigan deserve all they get when he inevitably poops on their good will in the coming seasons.

so Cas paid Leeds a fee ,was it in full or installments ?

Either way they still have to pay.
It`s a bit like losing your mobile phone and having no insurance n

Really? I didn`t know that.
Thought Cas had found him a job working for them in some capacity until his ban ran out?
He certainly has pished them off then if true.

I wonder if Cas had decent insurance on him?

Given his troubles with us, I'm sure they did. Poor bit of business if so. And even then, tearing up his contract probably won't stop them hanging onto his playing registration.

You might be right, but how do you know this?

he doesn't but contract being null and void does not stop Castleford holding his registration, remember the Iystyn Harris saga, Leeds held is registration, when he when to union. plus has a banned player Wigan cannot offer him jack s##t until his ban is up, and then only if Castleford officially sack/release him, otherwise he will still be registered at Cas. Castleford will not have voided his contract, they will have suspended him without pay until his ban is up, then they can either pick up the remainder of his contract or release him, if Cas had noted just paid out a transfer fee they probably would have sacked him on the spot.

That just means Bailey is smarter than hardaker
Jesus hardaker must be really thick

It's standard practice with regards to a drugs ban it protects the Club from having to pay a SL contract to a player they can't select similar to the relegation clauses.
However as has been pointed out his registration is a different matter iirc.