A COMPULSIVE gambler who lost more than £2m lost again today in his High Court claim for compensation and damages from bookmaker William Hill.
Mr Justice Briggs ruled that the bookies owed Graham Calvert no duty of care even though he asked them to stop taking his money under William Hills own self-exclusion policy.
The judge said that although William Hill did agree to exclude Mr Calvert from telephone gambling and failed to take reasonable steps to do so, pathological gambling would still probably have led to his financial ruin, but over a longer period of time.
Mr Justice Briggs, in a summary of his ruling, said: "William Hill's failure to take reasonable care to exclude him from telephone gambling... did not therefore cause Mr Calvert any measurable financial or other loss."
Full story in tomorrow's Northern Echo
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