The Weekly Law Reports
[1969] 2 WLR 454
[HOUSE OF LORDS]
VICTORIA SPORTING CLUB LTD. APPELLANTS AND HANNAM RESPONDENT
WYNBERG APPELLANT AND HANNAM RESPONDENT
1968 Dec. 16;
Lord Reid, Lord Morris of Borth-y-Gest, Lord Pearce, Lord Wilberforce and Lord Diplock
1969 Jan. 29
Gaming
— Game of chance
— Roulette
— Played with zero but with chances prima facie “equally favourable to all players”
— Odds at 36 to 1
— Payment at 35 to 1 with differential in marker chips
— All winning chips exchangeable for cash
— Invitation to winners to return voluntarily marker chips to club
— Invitation accepted by majority of winners
— Whether resulting in “chances … not equally favourable to all players”
— Whether “money … disposed of otherwise than by payment to a player as winnings”
— Whether unlawful gaming
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Betting, Gaming and Lotteries Act, 1963 (c. 2), s. 32 (1) (a) (ii) (b) (2) (a).