04 May 2022 UK: new rules for online gambling businesses looming By Benjamin Fellows On 14 April 2022, the UK's Gambling Commission announced new rules, which seek to ensure online gambling businesses do more to identify...
13 Apr 2022 Navigating Gambling Regulations in 2022 By Elinor Cavil As a prequel to the annual ICE conference taking place in London this week, DLA Piper’s London office played host to DLA Piper...
07 Apr 2022 Event (11 April, London): Navigating gambling regulation in 2022 By Paula Gonzalez de Castejón Llano-Ponte, Richard Van Schaik, Giulio Coraggio Gambling regulatory regimes are in a constant state of change. In the time between our last event of this nature and now, the gambling...
04 Apr 2022 Loot Boxes in video games - anticipated UK regulatory reforms By Benjamin Fellows Reform of the UK Gambling Act is gathering pace. A White Paper, which it is anticipated will propose wide reaching reforms for the...
17 Mar 2022 Scratchcard winners denied £4m payday – Goodram -v- Camelot By Benjamin Fellows On 22 April 2020, two individual’s lives changed for ever, after they bought a winning scratchcard with a prize of £4 million. Or so they...
09 Mar 2022 GDPR Fines and Data Breach Survey 2022 By Duncan Calow Data protection was once an overlooked area of the law, certainly in the media, sport and entertainment sector. Several years ago, during...
14 Feb 2022 Hungary plans to liberalize its sports betting market By Viktor Radics, Dániel Élő According to its recent TRIS notifications (no. 2022/66/HU and 2022/67/HU) addressed to the European Commission, the Hungarian legislator...
02 Feb 2022 Sharing of online gamblers' data moves a step closer By Benjamin Fellows On 1 February 2022, the Betting and Gaming Council announced it had selected GAMSTOP to operate the trial phase of the proposed Single...
06 Jan 2022 Gambling Commission annual report highlights increased enforcement action By Benjamin Fellows On 9 December 2021, the UK Gambling Commission published its annual Compliance and Enforcement Report ("Report"). The Report details the...
05 Jan 2022 The Spanish gambling regulator publishes relevant market data for 2020 By Elisa Lorenzo, Paula Gonzalez de Castejón Llano-Ponte The Spanish General Directorate of Gambling Affairs (“DGOJ”) has recently published new data on the development of the Spanish gambling...
16 Dec 2021 Racing Post article on Single Customer View By Benjamin Fellows Last week, I was delighted to speak to the Racing Post - the leading print and online publisher in the UK, focused on horse racing and...
26 Nov 2021 Gambling advertising: revised guidance on responsible and problem gambling By Benjamin Fellows On 11 November 2021, the Committee of Advertising Practice, and the Broadcast Committee of Advertising Practice, published revised...
01 Nov 2021 Provisional green light of Gambling Commission’s Single Customer View raises important issues for gambling operators, their officers, and bettors By Benjamin Fellows A must read for any organisation operating in the gambling sector, in particular its officers - our latest blog explores the Information...
30 Sep 2021 Spain: Draft regulation on safer gambling environments By Paula Gonzalez de Castejón Llano-Ponte, Andrea Fernandez, Elisa Lorenzo Ten years after the online gambling activities were regulated for the first time in Spain, the Advisory Council for Responsible Gambling...
04 Aug 2021 Gaming company unable to rely on exclusion clauses to avoid pay out By Benjamin Fellows A recent case in the English High Court highlighted the perils of vague drafting and reliance on exclusion clauses, which meant that an...
21 Jul 2021 Personal liability of a director and liability of an agent – the cautionary tale of Tattersalls Limited v McMahon By Adam Ibrahim, Benjamin Fellows, Chengiz Ali Bloodstock auction sales are a common means of selling thoroughbred horses - the thunder of racing hooves is often foreshadowed by the...