Gaming Offences in UK Law

  • "No Purchase Necessary" Route For Chance Based Competitions No Longer Required In Northern Ireland
    • Mondaq UK
    ......UK. See our recent post here. On 26 April 2022, the Betting, Gaming, Lotteries and Amusements. (Amendment) Act (Northern Ireland) Act ...limit to a maximum of '100; creates new offences in relation. to allowing children to play gaming machines; creates the ......
  • Deloitte Monday Briefing: Who Are Europe’s Hardest Workers?
    • Mondaq United Kingdom
    ...... June 2013, the lowest level since the current method of recording offences began in 2002/03 * Gaming revenues from the six companies with casino ......
  • Combating Cybercrime In Betting And Gaming - Creating A More Effective Anti-Money Laundering Strategy
    • Mondaq United Kingdom
    ...... Security Act 2001 (ATCSA 2001) and the Terrorism Act. 2006 (TA 2006)). The Terrorism Act establishes a. series of offences related to involvement in arrangements for. facilitating, raising or using funds for terrorism. purposes. . . . 4.2 A ......
  • Gambling Comparative Guide
    • Mondaq UK
    ...... However, gambling has never been the subject of an outright ban and gaming houses and betting on horse racing was a common feature of aristocratic ... investigating and prosecuting gambling offences. . . The cornerstones of the Gambling Act 2005 are its three licensing ......
  • Fraud, shift and cousenage
    • JD Supra United Kingdom
    When and how dishonesty needs to be shown following Ivey v. Genting Casinos (UK) Ltd t/a Crockfords [2017] UKSC 67 - The Gaming Act of 1664 imposed a forfeit on anyone who won a wager or prize, ...
    ......Genting Casinos (UK) Ltd t/a Crockfords [2017] UKSC 67 . . The Gaming Act of 1664 imposed a forfeit on anyone who won a wager or prize, if they ...A number of other such offences are relevant in a corporate context. These include bribery offences, money ......
  • Pokémon Go – The Law, You Gotta' Break Them All!
    • Mondaq UK
    ...... the 21st century gamer with its fusion of the real world and the gaming world. Now that the Poké-dust has settled, what impact has the first ... issues ranging from trespassing, anti-social behaviour, criminal offences, privacy violations, health risks, actual harm and even death to the ......
  • The Gambling Act to come into play...
    • Mondaq United Kingdom
    ...... are also all used to seeing posters and other adverts for overseas gaming operators; Paradise Poker adverts on the London Underground used to add a ... definition of advertising in the Act is deliberately broad; the offences are designed to catch anyone and anything that is involved at any stage in ......
  • The Rise Of Crypto-Collectibles
    • Mondaq UK
    ...... published a paper 'Virtual currencies, eSports and social casino gaming - position paper'. It reiterated that digital currencies (sometimes ... need to ensure it holds the relevant licences to avoid committing offences under the Gambling Act 2005. Further, any operator providing a social ......
  • UK Tax Round Up - July 2017
    • Mondaq UK
    ...... to prevent the facilitation of the underlying tax evasion offences in place. It is expected that over the coming weeks many firms will be ... UK's remote gaming duty applies to Gibraltan businesses. The ECJ has decided that the UK's ......
  • UK Tax Round Up - July 2017
    • JD Supra United Kingdom
    UK Tax News and Developments - Conservative legislative agenda set out in Queen's Speech - Following the UK general election on 8 June 2017, at which the Conservative party won the largest nu...
    ...... to prevent the facilitation of the underlying tax evasion offences in place. It is expected that over the coming weeks many firms will be ... UK's remote gaming duty applies to Gibraltan businesses. The ECJ has decided that the UK's ......
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