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Gambler loses £2m bookies claim
by Dave Keating | March 12, 2008 at 07:54 am | 215 views | 1 comment
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Not surprising, but an interesting legal case. At what point is a gambling operator liable to the same degree that a bartender is?
A compulsive gambler has lost his bid at the High Court to force bookmaker William Hill to repay his £2m losses.Greyhound trainer Graham Calvert, 28, from Houghton-le-Spring, near Sunderland, said the company failed in its "duty of care".
He claimed the company let him place bets after asking it to close his account under a self-exclusion scheme.
But Mr Justice Briggs ruled on Wednesday that William Hill was not liable for the losses.
He said that although the company failed to take "reasonable steps" to stop Mr Calvert from telephone gambling, Mr Calvert's pathological gambling would still probably have led to his financial ruin.
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March 12, 2008 at 07:54 am by Dave Keating, 215 views, 1 comment
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at 09:52 on March 12th, 2008
Interesting indeed. Gambling operations exist solely to make money; the term "the house always wins" isn't around for nothing. Indeed, a gambling organization's ideal scenario, businesswise, would be having everyone in the UK owing them two million quid...