Cricket and gambling: A relationship as old as the game and a hard habit to break

Telegraph – Cricket and gambling have been uneasy bedfellows for hundreds of years but never more so than now. As the England and Wales Cricket Board pushes, along with other sports, for Parliament to make match-fixing a crime, is it simply a question of rooting out a few bad eggs or does there need to be a long, hard look at the way sport and gambling interact? The ECB accepts advertisements from bookmakers and allows them to operate within cricket grounds around the country. It also sells TV rights to India, where gambling, apart from on-course bookmaking at horse races,…

UK Update: Point of consumption regulation

iGaming Business – The London law firm Jeffrey Green Russell has allowed iGaming Business to publish its latest industry update concerning developments in the UK’s move to regulate and license remote gambling on a point of consumption basis. The information below assumes a degree of knowledge regarding the ongoing process and while the Bill is directed at remote gambling and is of particular interest to that sector, there are associated changes taking place to the Licence Conditions and Codes of Practice attaching to ALL UK licenses, which those already licensed here also need to be aware of. The Gambling Commission…