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Ivey v Genting: UK Supreme Court unifies dishonesty test across civil and criminal law; Ghosh overruled; cheating at gambling need not be dishonest

Published on: 27 October 2017

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Ivey v Genting Casinos (UK) Ltd (t/a Crockfords) [2017] UKSC 67, [2017] All ER (D) 134 (Oct). Dishonesty is not a separate legal ingredient of cheating in gambling. The Supreme Court so decided, dismissing the professional gambler appellant’s appeal against the first‑instance ruling (upheld by the Court of Appeal) that he was not entitled to his ‘winnings’ from the respondent casino because he had cheated. The court considered the judge’s finding—that the appellant’s acts amounted to cheating—unassailable, and cautioned that seeking a definition of cheating would be unwise. It also ruled that the second limb of the R v Ghosh [1982] 2 All ER 689 test does not accurately state the law and directions founded on it should no longer be given. See: Supreme Court overrules Ghosh test in ‘most significant criminal law decision in a generation’, LNB News 25/10/2017 96.

Why is this case relevant to criminal lawyers?

Two key things flow from this Supreme Court judgment, which criminal lawyers need to know:

  • the Ghosh test of dishonesty has gone; a new test now applies
  • this test applies equally...

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