Hayley Stallard on Camelot's unsuccessful case against 49's. Hayley Stallard is head of the advertising and marketing law group at Field Fisher Waterhouse.
In the case Camelot Group v William Hill London and ors (18 August 1997), the Deputy Chief Magistrate at Bow Street decided that the predominant features of the 49’s game of chance promoted by bookmakers were those of betting and not of a lottery. However, his attempt to distinguish between the overlapping categories of betting, […]