Betting and Wagering in UK Law
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Betting on Elections: History, Law and Policy
Betting on elections has a long history, despite periods in which wagers were unenforceable and even criminalised. In recent years, significant online markets have emerged, driven by the bookmaking...... ... I OVERVIEW Wagering on electoral politics is a burgeoning and spec ial category of gambling. Today, election betting sits alongside sports betting and so-called ... ...
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The problems and causes of match-fixing: are legal sports betting regimes to blame?
Purpose: Sport match-fixing has emerged as a complex global problem. The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, it critically reviews how match-fixing is typified as a policy problem. Second, it ...... ... themselves from gambling (Clapson, 1992; Huggins, 2013).For example, in 1902, the English Football Association (FA) barred players from wagering, andin 1907 restricted betting by club officials, referees and linesmen because fixed-odds ... ...
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Internet gambling, credit cards and money laundering
Contrasts the approaches to offshore Internet gambling taken by the UK and the USA: the Budd Committee recommended that it be permissible under license in the former, but it is arguably illegal for...... ... ,17the plainti alleged thathe had lost the sum of $20 wagering at an Internetcasino known as Casino 21 after placing wagersusing a ... by gaming experts to prohibit only o-shore sports betting and neither casino nor lotterywagering.40In 1998 federal prosecutors used ... ...
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The Development of Betting Taxes in Britain
... ... from a legal decision that totalizator betting (a novelty at that time) was not ‘betting with a book- maker’ but wagering between individuals and, therefore, neither illegal nor taxable. As a result greyhound stadia companies installed totalizators, tote ... ...
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Section 92 and the Regulation of E-Commerce: A Casenote on Betfair Pty LTD V Western Australia
... ... Ltd ('Betfair') is the Australian arm of a well-known online betting agency ... that was originally based in London. The service Betfair ... threat comes in the form of competition to traditional wagering operators such as the ... TAB and local racetrack bookmakers. A ... ...
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Internet Casinos: A Sure Bet for Money Laundering
Since the end of the Second World War, American society has seen the emergence of technology promising to make life easier, better and longer lasting. The more recent explosion of the Internet is f...... ... the online gaming sites on the Internet, the act of gambling or wagering is the same. Gambling is an activity that should be unaffected, legally, ... the Act provides that, 'Whoever being engaged in the business of betting or wagering knowingly uses a wire communication facility for the ... ...
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OPTIMAL PRICE SETTING IN FIXED‐ODDS BETTING MARKETS UNDER INFORMATION UNCERTAINTY
This paper develops a model of optimal pricing under information uncertainty for fixed‐odds betting markets. The model suggests that bookmakers require a premium for quoting the odds several days b...... ... Economica , 56 , pp. 323–41. S AUER , R. D. (1998). The economics of wagering markets. Journal of Economic Literature , 36 , pp. 2021–64. S HIN , H. S. (1991). Optimal betting odds against insider traders. Economic Journal ... ...
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Repeal
... ... himself or of any other person,for the purpose of bookmaking, or betting, or wagering, oragreeing to bet or wager, or paying or receiving or ... ...
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Divisional Court Cases
... ... behalf ofhimself oranyother person forthepurpose of bookmakingor betting or wagering or agreeing tobetor wager orpaying or receiving or settling ... ...
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Recent Judicial Decisions
... ... MayThelaw relating to betting offences in streets and other publicplaces is to be found in several ... or any other person forthepurpose of bookmakingor betting or wagering or agreeing to bet or wager or paying or receivingor settling ... ...
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