Betting Offences in UK Law

  • Quarterly Summary
    • No. 21-2, April 1957
    • Journal of Criminal Law, The
    ...... sentenced by quarter sessions to Borstal training for two offences of gross indecency. The Court obtained information from the Prison ... (r Sth February, 1957). PUNISHMENT FOR STREET BETTING OFFENCES R. v. Dodd The appellant was convicted in the Crown Court, ......
  • Book Review: Paul's Police Offences
    • No. 17-4, December 1984
    • Journal of Criminology (formerly Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology)
    ......Thus sections deal with summary offences; protection of animals;vagrancy; lotteries, gaming and betting, and police offences. Asection on penaltiesand sentences, plus an introduction which covers such mattersasthe history oflegislation relating to ......
  • ‘The police are rottenly corrupt’: Policing, scandal, and the regulation of illegal betting in Depression-era Sydney
    • No. 48-4, December 2015
    • Journal of Criminology (formerly Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology)
    One groundbreaking aspect of the Wood Royal Commission into police corruption in New South Wales was to recognize the importance of the historical dimension of corruption. The historical consensus ...
    ......2 Mowlds’ case was as unremarkable as a drink driving charge would be in modern Australia. There had been 1034 prosecutions for betting offences in Sydney and Newcastle alone in the September quarter of 1933 ( Sun , 23 November 1933, p. 26). This figure was high, but not exceptional. Gambling ......
  • Recent Book: Licensing Practice and Procedure
    • No. 57-4, October 1984
    • Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles
    ...... is to make applications under the Licensing Act 1964,the Betting Gaming and Lotteries Act 1963, or the Gaming Act 1968. Yet ... two sections dealing with general licensing hours and offences which might be committed in licensed premises. As an unusual but ......
  • Drinking, Betting and Gaming
    • No. 21-2, April 1948
    • Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles
    ...... Police I F any doubt existed in the minds of Police officers, of whatever rank, as to whether or not participation in offences should be resorted to in order that persons who commit offences may be brought to justice, that doubt must either have been ......
  • Recent Judicial Decisions
    • No. 19-3, July 1946
    • Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles
    ...... asked questions tending to show that he has committed other offences or is of bad character. This general principle, which is laid down ...BOOKMAKING AND BETTING IN PUBLIC PLACE: COUNTY By-LAW INVALID Powell v. May The law relating ......
  • The Betting and Gaming Act, 1960
    • No. 25-2, April 1961
    • Journal of Criminal Law, The
    ...... (s. 7). There is provision for the cancellation of a bookmaker's or betting agency permit on conviction for certain offences and for the holder to be disqualified for holding or obtaining a permit for five years (s. 8). A bookmaker's permit may also be ......
  • Betting on Elections: History, Law and Policy
    • No. 42-2, June 2014
    • Federal Law Review
    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...
    ......77 It also fo und its way into the Queensland Criminal Cod e 1899 . 78 A 1977 stocktake of electoral offences showed t hat all States and the Commonwealth mai ntained criminal penalties for election betting. B ut most of those offences were ......
  • Criminal Law & Practice in Scotland
    • No. 28-2, April 1955
    • Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles
    ......'ASSISTING' IN COMMITTING BETTING ACT OFFENCES Baxter v. Keldon Sections 3 and 4 of the Betting Act, ......
  • Recent Judicial Decisions
    • No. 28-2, April 1955
    • Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles
    ......AIDING AND ABETTING IN ROAD TRAFFIC OFFENCES Davies, Turner & Co., Ltd. v. Brodie Before a person can be ..."PRIVA TE LOTTERY": BETTING AND LOTTERIES ACT, 1934 Maynard v. Williams; Jarvis v. Williams In ......
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