£4mn Payout Denied! - Goodram Reaffirms Rules On Incorporating Terms Into Lottery Tickets

On 22 April 2020, two individual’s lives changed forever, after they bought a winning scratchcard with a prize of £4 million. Or so they thought. A month later, Camelot, the body licensed by the UK Gambling Commission to operate the lottery, refused to pay out.

The subsequent court case^₁ that followed provides a useful and interesting judgment for gambling operators (or indeed any business) on the English law position regarding incorporation of terms into contracts, and the reasonableness of clauses relied upon.