Events
IAGA SUMMIT New York 2017
David Clifton, Founding Director, Clifton Davies Consultancy Limited
David is a founding director of Clifton Davies Consultancy Limited (having formerly been a senior partner in London law firm Joelson Wilson for 30 years).
Renowned for his depth of experience in all aspects of licensing and gambling law, in which he has specialized for nearly 35 years, he advises a broad range of gambling industry clients both throughout the UK and overseas and has been a contributing editor for leading textbooks on the subject of gambling law..
Whilst practising as a solicitor, he was for many years top-ranked in the Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners Guide to the Legal Profession, where he was “singled out for his advocacy skills” and described as “a genuine expert in the field, fantastically dedicated and client-oriented”.
With Suzanne Davies, David set up Clifton Davies Consultancy Limited in 2013 to provide practical compliance, regulatory, licensing and gambling law advice to both online and land-based sectors of the gambling industry.
Sports Betting: Is it time to play the ‘Trump’ card in US market?
With an existing legal challenge to legislation by New Jersey and another rumored from New York, is a repeal of PASPA now on the horizon? Te Sports-betting panel at IAGA will provide delegates with an update on this key issue with David Clifton of Clifton Davies Consultancy moderating what’s going to be a lively session
Even in the realm of online sports betting, successive judgments of the European Court of Justice have restricted the EU’s influence in the gambling sphere with the consequence that gambling regulation is primarily dealt with across Europe on the basis of national rather than EU legislation.
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“Te United States’ approach to sports betting lags behind Europe and other countries that effectively regulate a legal market. Today, at least $150 billion a year is wagered illegally on sports betting in the United States” – according to a memo sent by the American Gaming Association to President Trump’s transition team in support of its call for repeal of the federal sports betting prohibition imposed by the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act of 1992 (“PASPA”).
To those of us advising the gambling industry in the UK, as I have done since the early 1980s, it seems wholly anachronistic that 57 years after our Betting & Gaming Act 1960 put in place a system for licensing and regulating retail betting, the US is still wrestling with the issue of whether to follow suit itself.
Te principal concern in the UK prior to 1960 was the prevalence of unlawful betting. With reports of an estimated $4.5 billion being bet illegally during and after Super Bowl 51, it seems obvious that a similar situation exists in the US now. Te licensing framework that was adopted in the UK all that time ago was almost wholly successful in curbing the problems of street betting and illegal cash betting offices. Further legislative reforms culminating in the Gambling Act 2005, that came into force ten years ago, have permitted sports betting to mature into the successful and well-run industry that it is today.
I do not suggest for one moment that constitutionally any meaningful comparison can be drawn between gambling laws in the US and the UK, fundamentally by reason of the fact that, in the case of the former, various prohibitions on sports betting exist not only
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