Calvert v William Hill Credit Ltd

Subject Matter

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

[2009] Ch 330; [2009] 2 WLR 1065

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