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Business interruption insurance test case judgment – some good news at last

The Supreme Court has today (15 January 2021) delivered judgment in the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) business interruption insurance test case. Responding to the judgment (a copy of which you can download below), the FCA’s press release states as follows: The Supreme Court has substantially allowed the FCA’s appeal on behalf of policyholders. This completes the legal process […]

Hospitality Industry and Covid-19 Briefing Paper

The House of Commons Library has published a Briefing Paper entitled “Hospitality Industry and Covid-19″ (that you can download below) and an accompanying Hospitality businesses and employment by Parliamentary constituency and Local Authority Excel Spreadsheet The Briefing Paper provides current information on the hospitality industry in the UK, the impact of the Coronavirus pandemic and […]

Funding commitment correspondence between GRH APPG and BGC published by GambleAware

GambleAware has today published correspondence between both the APPG on Gambling-related Harms and the Betting & Gaming Council in relation to future funding commitments from William Hill, Entain, Bet365 and Flutter Entertainment. A letter from the Betting and Gaming Council to GambleAware dated 31 July 2020, outlining the funding commitments can be read here or downloaded […]

Launch of the Lancet Public Health Commission on Gambling

Heather Wardle (University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK), Louisa Degenhardt (University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia), and Shekhar Saxena (Harvard University, Cambridge, USA) have announced in The Lancet Public Health, the launch of the journal’s inaugural Commission on Gambling. The Commission on Gambling is described by them as “a scientific inquiry and response to an urgent, […]

PCA explains rights to tied tenants of the regulated pub companies

Fiona Dickie, the Pubs Code Adjudicator, has written an open letter to tied tenants, explaining important tenant rights in the Pubs Code that may help them especially during the current period of Coronavirus (COVID-19) restrictions. You can download that letter below. It addresses the following issues: Business Development Manager (BDM) conversations Discretionary Support Rent reviews […]

BGC CEO calls for Gambling Act Review to “deal in facts not fiction”

Michael Dugher, CEO of the Betting and Gaming Council, has written an article for PoliticsHome in which he drives home the all-important message that the UK Government’s Gambling Act 2005 Review must be evidence-led and based on “facts not fiction”. We completely endorse that sentiment. As pointed out in David Clifton’s current Licensing Expert article […]

UKGC emphasises it does not support or endorse external accreditation services as a way of complying with the LCCP

The Gambling Commission has today (7 January 2021) published on its website the following reminder to gambling businesses: Reminder to gambling businesses: external accreditation of compliance with the LCCP 07 January 2021 We do not support or endorse any external accreditation service as a way of complying with the LCCP. We would like to remind […]