White Paper on Gambling: Review and Response

After around 4 years of waiting, the government’s white paper on gambling was finally released last week. It was welcomed by the industry, if only because it might finally provide some stability that would allow companies to make more concrete plans on how to do business going further. However, while many changes have indeed been…

Ladbrokes First to Break ASA Marketing Rules

You may or may not know, but since October 1st 2022 it has been against Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) rules for gambling marketing to include high profile individuals who may appeal to minors. There is no set list of who is and isn’t included in this rule, but understandably professional footballers are among them –…

What on Earth is Happening with the Gambling Review?

You know when your other half asks you to clear out the shed, and you tell them you’ll do it, but then six months later you haven’t got round to it because there was that leak in the kitchen, then you all got norovirus and had to take time off work which you still haven’t…

Shirt Sponsorship Banned in New Gambling Act?

News about updated measures and restrictions in the new gambling act is always hotly anticipated, and the latest information leak has got the football industry worried. In an effort to further shield young people from gambling harm, it is thought that front of shirt advertising by gambling firms will be banned, costing clubs millions in…

Black Market Gambling Site Use Doubles in the UK

There’s a white paper on the gambling industry due out soon, and its’ purpose is to update the 2005 Gambling Act to make it more fit for the modern day industry, as well as to strike a balance between better protecting the vulnerable and over regulating an already tightly governed industry. The Betting and Gaming…

UK Gambling Law Review

Culture secretary, Oliver Dowden, has called the 15 year old gambling act an “analogue law in a digital age”, while launching the review into online gambling law reform. The pandemic held up the review which was supposed to begin earlier this year, but the first stages – known as a call for evidence – have…