Gambling and Gaming Power relations in dispute resolution Darryl Woodford, QUTdp.woodford@qut.edu.au / @dpwoodford 2. BackgroundUndergrad in UK, Postgrad inDenmark - Games focussed.Between the two worked in the offshoregambling industry.PhD at QUT looking at mechanisms forregulating online environments. According to the MGA Player Protection Directive and the MGA Alternative Dispute Resolution Directive, every Malta based gambling operator shall offer players the possibility of referring any dispute to a registered ADR entity if the player feels that a dispute was not resolved to their satisfaction.

Take the dispute as far as you can with the GAMBLING BUSINESS

The first advice we give to all customers of gambling businesses is to ensure that you have made every reasonable effort to try to resolve the situation with the company you’ve been dealing with.

We realise that sometimes having to deal with different individuals, departments or tiers within the same organisation can be frustrating and tiring, but the point of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) is that services such as IBAS exist to adjudicate when all else fails.

We have arrangements with a growing number of businesses that we will not look at a dispute until you, as the customer, have been advised in writing that you should contact us or you have been issued with a reference code or number to indicate that the company agrees it can do no more to resolve the dispute. Some operators will refuse to deal with IBAS on a dispute until they consider that their efforts to resolve the dispute have been exhausted.

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REGISTER WITH IBAS

In order to complete a Claim Form to begin the dispute process, you will first need to register an account with IBAS. Please note that the contact details you supply to us will be used only by us to communicate with you. Unless we are legally required to share these details, e.g. by the police or the Gambling Commission, they will never be sold, shared or otherwise passed on to any third party.

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Your account will be based on your email address and a password of your choice. We will then send you an email which explains what you need to do to verify your account. Again, we only ask you to do this to ensure that we have a correct email address so that any future communication about the progress and outcome of your claim reaches you safely.

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LOGIN TO YOUR ACCOUNT AND COMPLETE A CLAIM FORM

Once you have registered with IBAS and verified your email address, you should select 'MAKE A CLAIM' from the 'CONSUMERS' menu above. Enter your registered email address and password and you will see the Claim Form.

Set out the details of your dispute clearly and concisely

The IBAS Case Management team and Adjudication Panel are also experienced and knowledgeable on gambling issues, so you do not need to go into great detail about how particular bets or games ought to work.

Online Gambling Dispute Resolution

When you complete an online or written adjudication form, we ask you to explain:

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  • What you did, when and how you did it
  • What you expected the outcome to be
  • Why you expected that outcome
  • What the actual outcome was
  • Why you were told that was the case
  • Briefly, what your interaction with the company has been since
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The online adjudication form will allow you to attach any evidence such as photographs or screenshots.

Please remember to provide details such as your account number or account username or receipt/ticket number, if applicable.

Please do not produce reams of correspondence between you and the operator. If your case relies on something that has been written in an e-mail or live chat, please just enclose a copy of that one e-mail or live chat. If we need to request further examples of correspondence we can do so at a later stage.

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Please respond promptly to any further requests for information or evidence

Act

In many cases, the dispute process is slowed down because the customer has not realised that a follow up letter or e-mail has been sent requesting further information. Please do keep a look out for possible follow up communications.