David Clifton’s current ‘Licensing Expert’ article for SBC News is entitled ‘The Waves Are About To Get Rougher ….’, with David looking back to the 2001 Gambling Review Body Report, whose authors summed up their recommendations to the Government as follows: Our proposals generally move in the direction of allowing greater freedom for the individual to […]
David Clifton has been interviewed by LoginCasino Online Gambling Business Magazine on the current state of the UK’s gambling market, the process of obtaining a UK gambling licence, challenges facing UK licensed gambling operators as a result of recent regulatory developments and how the UK’s gambling industry may be transformed over the next five years. […]
David Clifton is interviewed by G3 Magazine in an article entitled “Public Image: What can the industry do to improve its reputation?”. The subtitle to that article reads as follows: The UK gambling industry continues to suffer a bad press despite the steps it has taken to limit gambling addiction and try to protect the […]
David Clifton’s current monthly ‘Licensing Expert’ article for SBC News, entitled “The Calm Before the Storm …” (that you can download below) runs through all of the matters that he believes UK licensed gambling operators should have taken note of during the last month or so. To enable readers to directly access more detailed information […]
David Clifton’s current monthly ‘Licensing Expert’ article for SBC News, entitled “What does the future hold with a new UKGC CEO?”, considers implications arising from the recently announced appointment of Andrew Rhodes as the Gambling Commission’s Interim Chief Executive following the sudden resignation of Neil McArthur in March this year. For ease of accessing material […]
Sadly all good things must come to an end. Having had the privilege and pleasure of writing the Pub & Bar Magazine legal page for close to ten years, we have concluded that, as the pandemic restrictions are relaxed, a fresh start for the pub and bar sector merits a fresh start for the Pub […]
In this month’s ‘Licensing Expert’ article for SBC News entitled “Time to assess the evidence” (accessible here), David Clifton comments on, amongst other things: the crucial need for the outcome of the U.K. Government’s Review of the Gambling Act 2005 to be about evidence not ideology, fact not fiction, the radical differences of opinion between ‘Peers for Gambling […]
In her article for the May 2021 edition of Pub & Bar magazine, entitled “Here comes the sun” (that you can download below), Suzanne Davies hopes for good weather conditions for the duration of the outdoor drinking and dining revival and looks forward to indoor hospitality reopening soon on 17 May 2021. For more information […]
In this month’s ‘Licensing Expert’ article for SBC News entitled “Gambling can’t hide from its spotlight” (that you can download below), David Clifton comments on last week’s DCMS announcement of an independent review into the collapse of Football Index. Crucially, that review will include an assessment of the decisions and actions of the Gambling Commission. […]
Subscribers to EGR Intel can access here a pay-gated article entitled “Pressure situation: The under-fire UK Gambling Commission feels the strain”, that includes comments by David Clifton and others in relation to the following issue: “The high-profile collapse of Football Index has led to accusations that the UKGC was ‘asleep at the wheel’. But where does […]
