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A Paddy Power customer who was refused a £1 million slot game jackpot by the firm has won a landmark legal case. The High Court has ruled that Paddy Power’s reason for not paying out – a so-called ‘system error’ – was not legal grounds to withhold Corrinne Durber’s payment of £1,097,132. Justice Ritchie concluded […]

Paddy Power is currently embroiled in a High Court battle with a customer who alleges that they have reneged on a £1 million jackpot payout. Mrs Corinne Durber and her legal team are in London in a bid to force the Irish firm to pay up the £1,097,132 that she believes is owed to her. […]

Accounting giant KPMG could be in heading for hot water after the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) opened an investigation into their auditing of Entain’s 2022 accounts. It’s not known exactly why the enquiry has been called for, with the FRC simply revealing that their enforcement division will be looking into the conduct of the accounting […]

After a disastrous first half of 2024, in which their earnings fell by a staggering 67%, the good times have finally returned for Evoke, the owner/operator of William Hill and 888. The firm signed off on the year with a second consecutive quarter of increased revenue, with the number of online bets place increasing by […]

We might describe the change in the number of UK high street betting shops in the financial year April 2023 to March 2024, as opposed to the same period a year earlier, as ‘natural shrinkage’. The retail sector lost 64 shops from the high street during the last financial year, which equates to a percentage […]