Gaming & Licensing

2 Hare Court is highly experienced in gaming and licensing, receiving instructions to advise and represent individual and corporate applicants and licence holders, those resisting applications and other interested parties.

Our gaming clients include casino operators and other licensees for both online and offline gaming operations and bookmakers. We are instructed to advise and appear before the Gambling Commission in new gaming applications, review and suspension hearings and related appeals, before local authorities in gaming and bookmaker applications and in the civil courts for corporate clients who are being sued by alleged problem gamblers.

Recent instructions include cases involving the pursuit of multi-million pound gaming debts, defending claims based on alleged problem gambling and / or the unlawful provision of credit and advising on remote gaming in the USA, UK and Europe.

2 Hare Court also has extensive experience of handling applications before the licensing committees of local authorities for premises, entertainment and liquor licences, street trading and more. As an example, members acted for the O2 Brixton Academy in its successful opposition to the Metropolitan Police’s application to revoke its licence.

We also provide advice and representation in civil and criminal regulatory cases, involving enforcement and abatement notices in relation to nuisance, noise and light pollution.

Other areas of expertise include firearms, gang master, security industry and vehicle licensing.