Archive | June, 2019

Beware the Gambling Commission’s change of corporate control process

Yesterday, the Gambling Commission announced that with, effect from 18 June 2019, it is revoking the operating licence of a Malta-based remote casino operator, Maxent Limited (trading most recently as MaxEnt, with the domain names betat.co.uk and slottyvegas.com). Its regulatory sanctions register entry states as follows: After a hearing before the Regulatory Panel, the Commission has decided to revoke […]

Protecting Betting Integrity

The Gambling Commission has published a document entitled “Protecting Betting Integrity”, that summarises the Commission’s policy and approach to protecting betting integrity, which is primarily concerned with sports betting. However, it should be noted that the Commission goes on to say: “the principles within this document also apply to betting on non-sporting events; for example, […]

ESSA rebrands as International Betting Integrity Association

Reflecting its increasingly international focus, particularly in relation to the role it plays in raising awareness of betting-related integrity issues worldwide, the sports betting integrity monitoring body European Sports Security Association (“ESSA”) has rebranded itself as the International Betting Integrity Association. Its press release announcing the rebranding can be downloaded below.  

New Hampshire District Court rules on Wire Act

We have reported previously on: the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) Opinion memorandum from the Office of Legal Counsel (“OLC”) dated 2 November 2018, reversing its previous (2011) interpretation of section 1084(a) of the Federal Wire Act, and the subsequent judicial challenge to that reversal filed on behalf of the New Hampshire Lottery Commission. Yesterday, the New Hampshire […]