We regularly write articles for industry and legal journals & magazines, including commentaries for Online Gambling Lawyer & iGaming Business, a monthly “Licensing Expert” piece for SBC News and a fortnightly page for Pub & Bar and, with their permission, are reproducing them on our website, together with our own news items and reports on topical issues affecting the leisure and gambling industries.

LCCP changes on age and identity verification for remote gambling

In its response to last September’s consultation on age and identity verification for remote gambling, the Gambling Commission has today published a ‘consultation response’ document, announcing changes to its Licence Conditions and Codes of Practice (“LCCP”) that will come into force on 7 May 2019. It has also published a summary of the key changes (that, together with […]

Blocked by the bank: Helping hand or troubling precedent?

Comments by David Clifton feature in one of the main news articles in the current edition of iGaming Times, coinciding with ICE 2019. Entitled “Blocked by the bank: Helping hand or troubling precedent?”, the article can be downloaded below. Its opening summary states: With high street banks taking on some of the responsibility for blocking problematic payments, and the […]

The Industry Standard

An article by David Clifton entitled “The Industry Standard” (carrying the opening summary that “a tough year may be over, but the sector needs to come together to face the continuing, and not unrelated, challenges of 2019”) features in the ICE 2019 edition of iGaming Business. The article (that can can be downloaded below) concludes with […]

Has regulatory enforcement in the gambling industry become too strict?

This morning, on the first day of ICE Vox, David Clifton joined the following industry leaders to debate the first Counsel stream motion – “Stricter regulatory enforcement makes consumer protection impossible. Operators must self-regulate instead”: Philip Bowcock, CEO, William Hill, Paris Smith, CEO, Pinnacle, Martin Lycka, Director of Regulatory Affairs, GVC Group, Dion Croom, Chairman, Habet Addiction Healthcare Limited and Richard […]

Under Pressure: Britain’s land-based casino market continues to contract

As ICE week 2019 commences, David Clifton is quoted (alongside Warwick Bartlett, CEO & founder of Global Betting and Gaming Consultancy, and casino consultant Paul Sculpher) in a CasinoReview article entitled “Under Pressure: Britain’s land-based casino market continues to contract”. David’s comments in the article are as follows: To regenerate hope of growth in the sector, harmonisation […]

Sharing best practice in use of data in identification of gambling related harm

Further to our 25 January 2019 posting on the Gambling Commission trialling of “co-creation workshops”, the Commission has now reported on its website that its Insight Team has “hosted a co-creation workshop joining gambling industry stakeholders in sharing best practice in the use of data in the identification of harm”. The Commission states that: During the workshop, data analysts […]

Excellent London Night Time Commission policy recommendations

The London Night Time Commission, chaired by Kate Nicholls (CEO of UK Hospitality), has published an extremely thorough and well-considered report entitled “Think Night – London’s neighbourhoods from 6pm to 6am” (that can be downloaded below). It maintains that London’s successful night-time economy can play a major role in helping to save the capital’s struggling […]

Gambling Health Alliance to focus on gambling-related harms

It has been announced today by the Royal Society for Public Health (“RSPH”) and GambleAware that the RSPH is to establish a Gambling Health Alliance (“GHA”) with the support of GambleAware. Their joint press release (that can be downloaded below) states as follows: The new Alliance will seek to ensure that gambling and the harms which […]

Industry warning notice regarding use of NDAs

The Gambling Commission has today posted on its website an “industry warning notice” regarding the use of non-disclosure clauses (NDAs) in agreements that may have had the effect of preventing consumers from reporting regulatory concerns to the Commission, by either excluding disclosure to any third party or, in some cases, explicitly preventing customers from contacting the Gambling Commission. […]