On the 8 May the Advertising Standards Agency, published their adjudication on Cassava Enterprises (Gibraltar) Ltd. The case is interesting as it relates to the use of advertisements via social media platforms and what this may mean for gaming companies with wider implications for sports professionals and their brand management which we will explore below. 

It is well documented that New Jersey is ooking to expand into sports betting, which projects that sport betting would raise an additional $30.6 million in tax revenue annually for the state. This article examines the professional sport leagues attempt to use the Federal Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA) to block New Jersey’s effort and the two sides’ ongoing legal challenge. 

LawInSport Insight - Sean Cottrell asks John Wolohan and Kevin Carpenter about their views on sports betting in New Jersey and more broadly about the gambling market and laws in the US. Watch to find out how they think this impacts on professional and college sport in the US.

Sean Cottrell is the founder and Managing Director of LawInSport.

John Wolohan is a Professor and the Director of the Sport Venue and Event Management Graduate program in the David B. Falk Center for Sport Management at Syracuse University.

Kevin Carpenter is the Editor of LawInSport.com.

Benoît Keane talks to Sean Cottrell, founder of LawInSport, about European sports rights and the recent conference on the sustainable financing of sport organised by the Irish Presidency of the European Union in Dublin.

Corrupt sports betting and match-fixing was a high profile issue in the lead-up to the London 2012 Olympic Games and continues to dominate the sports headlines. In this article Kendrah Potts looks at what we can learn from some of the processes that were put in place for the London 2012 Olympic Games to identify those involved in conduct which could undermine the integrity of sport.

First published in iGaming Business

Any quiz boffin worth their salt will know that the first English football team to wear sponsored shirts was not Arsenal, Man United or Chelsea but non-league Kettering Town. It was January 1976 and the sponsor was Kettering Tyres. Despite the fact that Kettering was a relative footballing backwater and 1976 was a very different era in media coverage, it took the Football Association just four days to order the removal of the branding. Following a brief period of cat and mouse during which Kettering reduced their branding to "Kettering T" (claiming it stood for "Town" rather than "Tyres"), the threat of an FA fine finally wore Kettering's defiance down.

Thursday 29th November 2012 saw a now permanent fixture in the sports conference calendar returning for its third year: Sport & iGaming 2012, organised by SportBusiness and iGamingBusiness, and hosted by Pinsent Masons LLP in London, with LawInSport as media partner. The day promised a varied agenda in terms of both content and delivery with something for all stakeholders within the sport and/or gambling sectors.

According to current Swiss legislation, an executive of a sport organisation based in Switzerland can accept bribes in a bidding process without breaking any laws. Furthermore, a recent criminal court case showed that football players and referees in Switzerland can engage in betting-related match-fixing without committing a crime. The Swiss government now intends to close these loopholes.

Now in its third year, SportBusiness Group and iGaming Business are coming together to deliver the Sport and iGaming Conference 2012 at Pinsent Masons LLP on 29th November 2012.

This one day conference is the only event in the calendar addressing the links between these two sectors, making it the most relevant event of the year for professionals working in the space. The event brings together rights holders, brands, gaming operators and industry suppliers from both sectors to provide both unique networking opportunities and the chance to learn more about the gains to be made from cross sport- igaming partnerships.

World Sports Law Report is proud to announce the launch of Sport & Gambling 2012, an annual summit providing both gambling operators and sports organisations with an in-depth update on the fast-paced, complex legal and regulatory structure that underpins their relationship.

Sports rights, betting rights, advertising and combating corruption are just some of the key issues that will be addressed by our team of expert speakers.

In the build-up to the London 2012 Olympic Games the International Olympic Committee ('IOC'), representatives of the UK Government and others have stated that sports betting integrity and match-fixing has overtaken doping as the principal threat to the Games.

This is the second part of an interview I did with Julia Mackisack, Director of Corporate Affairs at the 
Gambling Commission ('GC'), who is responsible for managing the communications of the GC (both internally and externally) and works closely with the Chairman and Chief Executive in managing relationships with stakeholders.

An exclusive interview by Kevin Carpenter, Executive Contributor for LawinSport

In the build-up to the London 2012 Olympic Games the International Olympic Committee (‘IOC’), representatives of the UK Government and others have stated that sports betting integrity and match-fixing has overtaken doping as the principal threat to the Games. 

The Gambling Commission (‘GC’), established under the Gambling Act 2005, regulates the majority of commercial gambling in Great Britain and has been closely involved with sports betting integrity policies generally and more specifically in relation to the Games. In its recently published Annual Report and Accounts for 2011/12.¹

 it had this to say, “With the 2012 London Olympics approaching our priority has been to ensure that sports authorities, law enforcement agencies and the legal betting industry here and abroad are working together to counter any threat to sports betting integrity during the Games." 

To find out more last month I interviewed Julia Mackisack, Director of Corporate Affairs at the
GC, who is responsible for managing the communications of the GC (both internally and externally) and works closely with the Chairman and Chief Executive in managing relationships with stakeholders. I began by asking her about what the Government's intentions were for the GC back in 2005.

Australian Rugby Union today announced a new two year partnership with independent international online betting monitoring company, Global Sports Integrity (GSI) – in a ground- breaking move for an Australian sport.

Based in London and Australia, GSI monitor the betting markets from over 100 bookmakers in the UK, Australia and around the world and will help to ensure the integrity of Rugby is maintained.

Institut de hautes études en administration publique has announced that they will be streaming live from the Sport & EU conference (http://webcast.idheap.ch/Mediasite/Catalog/catalogs/GPI). 

The conference will be covering a wide range of issuse including:

• Sport and gambling
• Match fixing
• Financial Fair Play Regulations
• Governance in sport

Be sure to turn in to listen to our very own Kevin Carpenter on the morning of the 22nd June when he will talking about "Sport Betting: A transversal challenge".

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