Gaming Law in UK Law

Leading Cases
  • Seay v Eastwood
    • House of Lords
    • 28 Julio 1976

    Legislation against, or controlling, gaming, wagering and betting is many centuries old in the United Kingdom. It is impossible to frame accurate definitions which can cover every such variety: attempts to do so may indeed be counter-productive, since each added precision merely provides an incentive to devise a variant which eludes it.

  • C.H.T. Ltd v Ward
    • Court of Appeal
    • 07 Noviembre 1963

    People do not game in order to win chips. They are mere counters or symbols used for the convenience of all concerned in the gaming. If actual money were lent to the defendant in order to game and the game were played for cash, the defendant would pay her own losses in cash and the plaintiffs would be under no obligation to pay anything to the winners.

  • Lipkin Gorman (A Firm)(Original Appellants and Cross-Respondents) v Karpnale Ltd (Formerly Playboy Club of London Ltd) (Original Respondents and Cross-Appellants)
    • House of Lords
    • 06 Junio 1991

    At present I do not wish to state the principle any less broadly than this: that the defence is available to a person whose position has so changed that it would be inequitable in all the circumstances to require him to make restitution, or alternatively to make restitution in full.

  • R v Gaming Board for Great Britain, ex parte Benaim and Khaida
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 23 Marzo 1970

    They can, and should, receive information from any other reliable source. If the Board were bound to disclose every detail, that might itself give the informer away and put him in peril, But, without disclosing every detail, I should have thought that the Board ought in every case to be able to give to the applicant sufficient indication of the objections raised against him such as to enable him to answer them. If they are not, these Courts will not hesitate to interfere.

  • R v Knightsbridge Crown Court, ex parte Marcrest Properties Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 20 Diciembre 1982

    However, as previously stated, the only lawful credit that the casino can give is to accept a cheque to enable the customer to take part in the gaming. Again, as previously stated, such a cheque must comply with Sections 16 (2) and 16 (3). Thus the only way in which a debt in respect of any loss incurred in gaming can lawfully arise is if that cheque is dishonoured.

  • Associated Leisure Ltd (Phonographic Equipment Company Ltd) v Associated Newspapers Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 28 Mayo 1970

    I start with the principle, well settled, that an amendment ought to be allowed, even if it comes late, if it is necessary to do justice between the parties, so long as any hardship done thereby can be compensated in money. I think that justice requires that the matters alleged in this amendment should be investigated in a Court of Law. If it fails, the damages, which might otherwise have been modest, would now be colossal.

  • R v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, ex parte Blackburn
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 29 Enero 1968

    He must decide whether or no suspected persons are to be prosecuted; and, if need be, bring the prosecution or see that it is brought. But in all these things he is not the servant of anyone, save of the law itself. No Minister of the Crown can tell him that he must, or must not, keep observation on this place or that; or that he must, or must not, prosecute this man or that one.

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Legislation
  • Gaming Act 1845
    • UK Non-devolved
    • 1 de Enero de 1845
  • Betting Act 1853
    • UK Non-devolved
    • 1 de Enero de 1853
    ... ... An Act for the Suppression of Betting Houses. (16 & 17 Vict.) C A P. CXIX ... [20th August 1853] ... 'WHEREAS a kind of Gaming has of late sprung up tending to the Injury and Demoralization of improvident Persons by the opening of Places called Betting Houses or Offices, and ... ...
  • Gaming Act 1968
    • UK Non-devolved
    • 1 de Enero de 1968
  • Life Assurance Act 1774
    • UK Non-devolved
    • 1 de Enero de 1774
    ... ... , that the making Insurances on Lives, or other Events, wherein the Assured shall have no Interest, hath introduced a mischievous Kind of Gaming:' For Remedy whereof, be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and ... ...
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Books & Journal Articles
  • Recent Book: Betting and Gaming: The New Law of Betting and Gaming
    • No. 34-3, May 1961
    • Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles
    • 0000
  • Recent Book: The Law on Gambling: The New Law of Belting and Gaming
    • No. 37-6, June 1964
    • Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles
    • 0000
  • REVIEWS
    • No. 2-2, September 1938
    • The Modern Law Review
    Book reviewed in this article: Restatement on Restitution. American Law Institute. See Article by D. W. Logan Constitutional Law of England. By Edward Wavell Ridges. Principles of the Law of Contra...
    ... ... Pangloss to discover the razson suflsunte of the English Law of Gaming. English judges have been unsparing in their strictures on this most confusing and illogical branch of our law.’ According to ... ...
  • FRUSTRATED CONTRACTS AND LEGAL FICTIONS
    • No. 46-1, January 1983
    • The Modern Law Review
    “Someone says to me: ‘Show the children a game.’ I teach them gaming with dice, and the other says, ‘I didn't mean that sort of game.’ Must the exclusion of the game with dice have come before his ...
    ... ... FRUSTRATED CONTRACTS AND LEGAL FICTIONS “ Someone says to me: ‘ Show the children a game.’ I teach them gaming with dice, and the other says, ‘ I didn’t mean that sort of game.’ Must the exclusion of the game with dice have ... ...
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Law Firm Commentaries
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