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The former Leader of the Conservative Party and Leader of the Opposition in the period from 2001 to 2003, Iain Duncan Smith, fiercely criticised the reports that the Government would leave a measure seeking to impose a mandatory levy on gambling companies and suspend gambling operators’ logos from English Premier League (EPL) shirts out of its much-expected white paper. Sir Iain Duncan Smith has even vowed to declare “war” on the UK Government in case local lawmakers decide to make the measures in their review of the country’s gambling legislation…

After some controversial anti-money laundering practices have been revealed during the ongoing probe into the Star Entertainment Group in the state of New South Wales (NSW) and a number of former investigations into Crown Resorts, the Government of Queensland has decided to unveil stricter gambling legislation. Under the provisions of the tougher gambling laws, there will be monetary penalties of up to AU$50 million for operators that are found to have violated the rules. Shannon Fentiman, who is the Minister for Justice and Attorney-General, noted that the proposed changes in…

A new legislative proposal made by Victorian lawmakers is seeking to see the implementation of stricter rules for the local gambling industry as part of the authorities’ efforts to tackle gambling-related harm. Under the provisions of the new regulation, the recently-established Victorian Gambling and Casino Control Commission (VGCCC) is set to be empowered, as it will take over the responsibilities of the so-far existing regulator – the Victorian Commission for Gambling and Liquor Regulation (VCGRL). This, however, applies only to the gambling regulation of the VCGRL, while the liquor regulation…

The CEO of the Betting and Gaming Council (BGC) has warned the UK Government that it risks strong disapproval if it compiles its decision on the country’s gambling regulation with the opinion of anti-gambling campaigners. Michael Dugher, who currently chairs the trade body representing the UK legal gambling sector, has shared his view on political opinion and commentaries regarding the Local Election results revealed in May. According to him, the results showed predictable mid-term problems and still, he believes that the results had not been “entirely catastrophic”, although there had…

Some personal finance experts have claimed that the new advertising rules in the UK, as part of which the use of professional athletes and celebrities to promote gambling operators’ services has been banned, should be extended outside the lottery and gambling sector. As Casino Guardian reported at the time, at the beginning of April, the Committee of Advertising Practice (CAP) unveiled a decision, under which football stars, celebrities and social media influences will no longer be able to promote gambling companies’ services in the UK. The change is set to…

Online casino operators in the UK will be forced to cut betting stakes to about £2, while the Premier League clubs will have to remove gambling companies as sponsors from their shirts under the latest Government restrictions that are set to be announced in June. Next month, Ministers are expected to publish the results of their review of the country’s gambling legislation following months of consideration that have been prompted by concerns that the UK gambling laws have not been serving their purposes after online gambling’s rapid increase in popularity.…

On May 19th, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) published its Annual Report 2021. As part of it, the regulator provided some details regarding the stricter policy on gambling advertising, as well as the recently announced limitations on the use of celebrities and influencers in gambling ads, as part of its efforts to protect younger audiences in the UK. At the time when the advertising watchdog published its annual report for the past year, the Committee on Advertising Practices (CAP) revealed that British children’s viewership of advertising in general over the…

An Irish psychologist recently shared that the proposals for the suspension of gambling advertising until after the watershed came about 20 years too late. Clinical psychologist Mark Smyth, who commented on some recommendations for a gambling advertising ban between 6:00 AM and 9:00 PM made by the Oireachtas Justice Committee, believes that the Irish gambling legislation changes have been proposed too late. According to estimates, about 3,500 children aged 15 and 16 in Ireland can currently be categorised as problem gamblers. In order to tackle the increasing gambling addiction rates…

The UK gambling regulatory body has once again published information regarding the changes in Brits’ gambling behaviour linked to the easing of the Government’s coronavirus lockdown measures and the current environmental factors in the country. The watchdog has noted that such data will be published on a quarterly basis, and so will be the analysis. The latest update in the information about local residents’ gambling behaviour refers to the quarters in the financial year 2021/2022. The operator data provided by the UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) covers the period from March…

Lately, the UK gambling sector has been repeatedly suffering one blow after another, as an increasing number of charity organisations and anti-gambling campaigners have been insisting that the industry should be forced to make larger contributions to tackle the possible negative effects of gambling-related harm. A recent publication by The Guardian claims that the country’s gambling industry has seen its revenue triple its size but that has not resulted in a significant increase in the monetary donations to GambleAware – the largest gambling charity in the UK seeking to actively…