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27th March 2020

Government Help for Gambling Businesses

In an effort to help businesses struggling in the face of the global coronavirus pandemic, the Government announced, on 17...

By Francesca Burnett-Hall

27th March 2020

Betting Without Sports & Product Diversification

Following the recent cancellation of almost all sporting events, and with future cancellations and postponements looking inevitable, licensees may be...

By Lucy Paterson

25th March 2020

The Gambling Commission’s Response to the Coronavirus Crisis

The world is currently facing its greatest health emergency since the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918 and its worst economic...

By Julian Harris

21st February 2020

Four Lawyers Ranked in Chambers Global 2020

Four of Harris Hagan’s lawyers were individually ranked in the global rankings, for Gaming & Gambling, of the prestigious Chambers &...

By Harris Hagan

14th February 2020

Betting and Gaming Council Call for Crackdown on Black Market

The Betting and Gaming Council (“BGC”), the single industry group which represents British-licensed gambling operators, has called for the Government...

By Lucy Paterson

5th February 2020

Changing Mindsets

After a marked absence from ICE, Neil McArthur, the CEO of the Gambling Commission, gave a keynote speech at the...

By Francesca Burnett-Hall

3rd February 2020

Gambling Commission Consults on Remote Key Equipment Changes

All online gambling businesses providing facilities for gambling have remote gambling equipment, known as “key equipment”. This is recorded in Schedule...

By Francesca Burnett-Hall

20th January 2020

Advice to the Gambling Commission on Actions to Reduce Online Harms

The Gambling Commission’s independent advisers, the Advisory Board for Safer Gambling (“ABSG”) and the Digital Advisory Panel (“DAP”) were tasked...

By Bahar Alaeddini

19th January 2020

NHS Concerns Over Gambling

On 14 January 2020, the head of mental health services in England, Claire Murdoch, penned a bold letter to the...

By Bahar Alaeddini

17th January 2020

Raising Standards: Gambling Commission Working Groups

On 2 October 2019, Neil McArthur delivered a speech to CEOs at a breakfast briefing in London in which he...

By Michelle French

6th January 2020

New Year, New LCCP: RET Payments

A new version of Licence Conditions and Codes of Practice (“LCCP”) has been published, which came into effect on 1...

By Michelle French

6th January 2020

The Gambling Act 2005: “Analogue Legislation in a Digital Age”

The Gambling Act 2005, which came into force on 1 September 2007 before the digital development of smart phones, online...

By Michelle French