The Italian authorities may be ruing the day they began their legal battles with bookmaker Stanleybet as the issuing of new licences is suspended following the latest legal challenge from the company.
Having triggered the landmark Gambelli and Placanica cases which opened up the country’s betting market, prevented SISAL from being handed an automatic extension to its Superenalotto contract, and forced the authority to backtrack on its granting of licences to existing SNAI betting shops in [...]