The Gambling Commission has today (3 August 2022) announced that on 11 July 2002 it imposed a £1.32million penalty on Malta-based remote gambling operator LeoVegas Gaming PLC, following an operating licence review finding that between October 2019 and October 2020 LeoVegas: breached paragraphs 2 and 3 of licence condition 12.1.1. Anti-Money Laundering (AML) – Prevention of money […]
Comments by David Clifton in his current Licensing Expert article for SBC News (entitled ‘Musings on a Pending White Paper’) are mentioned in an article within the second edition of ‘Pinchpoint’, a newsletter from the Department of Trust and BetBudget. You can read the entire ‘Pinchpoint’ article below: The £500 Question We heard it so […]
The Parliamentary All Party Betting & Gaming Group (APBGG) – most certainly not to be confused with the Gambling Related Harm APPG – has commenced “an investigation into the competence and effectiveness of the regulator of British gambling, the Gambling Commission”. The APBGG has published an invitation to stakeholders to submit (by 31 October 2021) […]
In a wide-ranging Cabinet reshuffle, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has: promoted Nadine Dorries (MP for Mid-Bedfordshire) as the new Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) in place of Oliver Dowden, who has been appointed Chairman of the Conservative Party, but will also remain in the Cabinet as Minister Without Portfolio, and […]
David Clifton is quoted in a Vixio Gambling Compliance article entitled ‘Palacegate Casino Teeters As London’s Top Casinos Lay Low’. That article (which is available solely to Vixio subscribers) reports that warnings have been given to staff of the Palacegate Casino in London that “they will not be paid and the property may not reopen […]
The Daily Mail has reported as follows the High Court judgment delivered by Mr Justice Griffiths on 4 June 2021 in the case of Amarjeet Singh Dhir v Flutter Entertainment PLC [2021] EWHC 1510 (QB): Paddy Power ‘did not really care’ as it offered gambling addict businessman a £20,000 bonus and plied him with ‘lavish’ […]
As some may have noticed, the Gambling Commission has published a notice on its website (and a link to the News page on its new website) stating: We’re gradually moving to a new website. All news published after 22 March 2021 will only be available on our new website. You can still view all previous […]
We can expect increasing production of research statistics as the UK Government’s Review of the Gambling Act 2005 proceeds. In addition to PwC’s “Review of unlicensed online gambling in the UK” published by the Betting and Gaming Council on 4 February 2021 (on which we have reported separately here), other examples within the last few […]
Arising from the Prime Minister’s announcement on 12 October 2020 of a new three-tier Covid-19 alert system for England, considerable confusion within the hospitality industry quickly emerged in relation to that part of his speech in which he said (when explaining the Tier 3 restrictions, currently only applicable in the Liverpool City Region): Pubs and […]
As UK land-based gambling premises start to re-open – betting shops this week with casinos, bingo clubs, AGCs and FECs to follow in the coming weeks – the issue of mobile, contactless and cash-free payments has come more to the fore whilst the UK remains subject to Covid-19 restrictions. Operators are reminded that, in addition […]
