The Law Reports (Chancery Division)
[2009] Ch 330
Court of Appeal
Calvert
v
William Hill Credit Ltd
[2008] EWCA Civ 1427
2008 Oct 16,
17;
Dec 16
Dec 16
Sir Anthony May P, Lloyd, Etherton LJJ
Negligence— Causation— Problem gambler— Bookmakers offering self-exclusion agreements to help problem gamblers control habit— Claimant compulsive gambler making self-exclusion agreement with defendant to close his account and prevent him from telephone betting for six months— Defendant not preventing claimant from reopening account and resuming telephone betting— Claimant sustaining substantial gambling losses— Whether caused by defendant’s breach of duty— Whether quantification of loss to take account of other gambling losses which claimant would have sustained but for breach of duty— Whether defendant liable in negligence for claimant’s losses