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Gambling is a significant global industry, which is worth around 0.6% of world trade, that is, around US$ 384 billion; and Gambling on the outcome of sports events is a very popular pastime for millions of people around the world, who combine a flutter with watching and enjoying their favourite sports. But, like any other human activity, sports betting is open to corruption and improper influence from unscrupulous sports persons, bookmakers and others who are out to make a quick—but substantial buck—unjustly and unfairly.
Ian S. Blackshaw—Member of the Court of Arbitration for Sport and Honorary Fellow of the ASSER International Sports Law Centre.
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For a recent high-profile example, see the article on the England Pakistan Fourth Test Cricket Match Fixing Case – ‘It all comes down to proof’—by Ian Blackshaw in The Times newspaper on 9 February, 2010. For an extended version of this article, see International Sports Law Journal, ISLJ 2010/3-4, at pp. 186 & 187.
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This is well borne out by the WickiLeaks website affair in which confidential and highly sensitive diplomatic cables, mainly from US diplomatic missions around the world, were leaked to and published by the world’s media during December 2010, despite the protestations of the US State Department and the US Attorney General.
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See Her Majesty’s Customs and Excise v Gerhard Schindler and Jorg Schindler, C-275/92, Judgement of 24 March, 1994, [1994] ECR I- 01039.
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Ibid., para 32.
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See Article 165(1) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU).
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Blackshaw, I.S. (2011). Introductory Remarks. In: Anderson, P., Blackshaw, I., Siekmann, R., Soek, J. (eds) Sports Betting: Law and Policy. ASSER International Sports Law Series. T.M.C. Asser Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-6704-799-9_1
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