In the United Kingdom, the Court Of Appeal has upheld an earlier ruling that gave the Gambling Commission regulator the right to prevent pubs from obtaining a gambling license even if the operator had satisfied all of the necessary criteria.
The Friday decision from the nation’s second-highest court confirmed an upper tribunal judge’s ruling from February of 2016 that the Gambling Commission had the right to refuse applications for operating licenses from pubs as to consider such requests could be seen as “trespassing” on the rights the Gambling Act 2005 had assigned to local authorities.
Operators that want to offer high-street gambling services in the United Kingdom must first obtain an operating license from the Gambling Commission as well as a premises license fr…