Betting on sport in the UK has never been so popular. The proliferation of online betting sites has opened up a vast range of sporting events and markets for punters. Popular amongst UK punters are football, rugby union / league, golf and snooker, along with US sports such as American football and baseball.
European Online Betting [...]
This was the original title (and much better ) of the German Federal Court of Justice, after the I. Zivilsenat (first division for civil matters) at the Bundesgerichtshof (German Federal Court of Justice) dismissed in four cases action filed by state-run gambling providers (among others Westlotto) against private sports betting providers holding GDR and EU [...]
Interesting case in France, where a court has decided that a bookmaker doesn’t have the right to use the trademark Juventus in order to promote one of his offers.
what if I say AC Milan ?
Via casinowire
The Civil Court of First Instance in France has ruled that Unibet and William Hill were [...]
German gambling act, as expected, is officially challanged by the EU Commission that started the official investigation against Germany, as the internal Market commissioner Charlie McCreevy announced :
This new inquiry focuses on a number of provisions of the new legislation which entered into force on 1.1.2008. Some of the key restrictions that are questioned [...]
Italy has been convicted twice before the European Court of Justice for its gambling legislation, lack of clarity and infringement of the EU treaties. But where do we go from here?
Is the main result of these decisions the fact that Italian market is open for every new competitor ? Well, things are more complicated than [...]
As expected, the European Commission will step up this week with a legal action againts Germany’s new gambling act that outlaws online gaming and betting, as Reuters reports.
Moreover, the Commission says it wasn’t informed properly. The online gambling market regulation seems one of the few areas in the economy where the EU members states seem [...]
According to the UK’s Gambling Commission’s newsletter the Canadian Kahnawake Mohawk territory and Antigua have both failed in their bid to be to be added to their white list thus preventing their online gambling operators from advertising in the UK.
 “After careful assessment of their representations against the published criteria, the Secretary of State has also [...]
Law and Economics Professor Kalle Määttä was hired by the Finland Ministry of Health and External Affairs to draft a report on the problem of protecting chidren and gambling addicts.
 His report could lead to a change in the Finland’s gambling law in 2008 and 2009, but also to comply with the EC decisions, although other [...]
The Court of Appeal of Versailles called on 21 January 2007 to the French authorities to justify their regulatory framework is consistent, proportionate and justified, applying thus the European Court of Justice interpretation in the cases of Gambelli and Placanica.
The Court considered that referring a question for a preliminary ruling to the ECJ was [...]
Or at least – not in relation with the US authorities, that started the 2008 by disregarding again the problems with the EU and WTO treaty on the gambling issues and decided to go an arrest 8 persons that allegedly “made millions of dollars in profits annually.”
Reuters reports :
Twelve men face charges including conspiracy [...]