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It's Not a State Secret

The Racing and Gaming Minister Ljiljanna Ravlich in Western Australia has released an initial estimation of total costs of the recent litigation that went into Australian High Courts. The Western Australian (WA) government was against allowing foreign online casinos betting companies from accessing the state gambling market, but according to the High Court, the attempt to ban Betfiar from accessing the WA market are unconstitutional, which means that the state government lost the case, and it looks as though the state taxpayers will foot the bill that is estimated at topping out at AUS $500,000.

The legal costs associated with appealing the case though are no state secret though according to Ravlich. The state wanted to protect the state online casinos gambling industry and knew that there was a chance that they could lose the case…that is a risk you take in litigation. Ravlich puts the cost of the online casinos betting dispute “anywhere between 200-thousand through to half a million, but I don't have the final figure on it. I haven't been presented with the final figure, but I'm quite happy to make that public. You go to court to appeal a decision of the court which is a matter of public interest, naturally the involvement of lawyers means that it is going to be costly.”

Betfair balked at the attempts of the WA government to block the company from taking bets from online casinos gamblers in the region, and in the end was vindicated since the High Courts struck down the WA ban. But this is just one relief for the company; Betfair is involved in other legal dispute regarding access to the online casinos betting industry in Victoria, Australia. The case precedence in WA could prove helpful, but in the end the regions operate with different state governments, so it’s anyone’s game at this point.