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Gambling - Online Gambling Review Published.
The Gambling Commission has now published there review of the Online Gambling industry. Following the implementation of the Gambling (Licensing and Advertising) Act 2014; which required online Operators whose services are available in Grea...
Gambling – Changes to Advertising Rules
The Committees of Advertising Practice (CAP) earlier this month published new tightened standards concerning gambling advertising which will come into force on 2nd April 2018. These standards will be enforced by the Advertising Standards Aut...
Gambling – William Hill to pay £6.2m penalty
It is being reported that following earlier examples such as BetFred and Paddy Power, William Hill Group have been made subject to a penalty package of at least £6.2m (second largest fine issued by the Gambling Commission) following an inves...
Gambling – Competition and Markets Authority Investigation Update
Following their long running investigation (launched in October 2016) regarding online gambling terms and conditions the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) have announced that undertakings have been received from 3 of the largest online opera...
Gambling - Commission launches new consultation on LCCPs
The Gambling Commission have today launched a new Consultation regarding the LCCPs. The proposed changes can be found here (which are tracked in the consultation document). The stated aim of the changes is to make clearer requirements that ...
Gambling - Betting shops: licensing and planning issues - a briefing document
This House of Commons Library briefing paper looks at licensing and planning issues relating to betting shops in Great Britain. There are 8,502 betting shops in Great Britain (Gambling Commission statistics, November 2017). The briefing doc...