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Ivey v Genting Casinos: cheating at gambling does not require dishonesty; Ghosh overruled and a universal objective test of dishonesty adopted for civil and criminal cases

Published on: 31 October 2017

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Ivey v Genting Casinos (UK) Ltd (trading as Crockfords) [2017] UKSC 67, [2017] All ER (D) 134 (Oct) The Supreme Court rejected a professional gambler’s appeal from the Court of Appeal’s ruling that he was not entitled to his winnings from the respondent casino, as he had cheated. The court held that dishonesty is not an additional legal component of cheating in gambling. It found that the first-instance judge’s conclusion, affirmed by the Court of Appeal, that the appellant’s conduct amounted to cheating, was unassailable, and that seeking to define cheating would be very unwise. Further, it ruled that the second limb of the test in R v Ghosh [1982] 2 All ER 689 did not correctly state the law and directions based upon it should no longer be given.

What was the background to the case?

The appellant, a world-renowned gambler, entered the respondent’s Mayfair casino and won more than £7.7m at Punto Banco in just two sessions. There was no dispute about his method—it involved edge-sorting—and the sole question was whether this amounted to cheating...

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