Nick Arron - Partner
Nick is a solicitor and the lead Partner in the Betting & Gaming Team, having responsibility for Operating, Personal and Premises Licences under the Gambling Act 2005.Nick acts for a wide variety of leisure operators from large corporations to single site operators, including bookmakers, bingo operators, family entertainment centres and adult gaming centre arcades, clubs and gaming machine manufacturers and suppliers. His clients are from the terrestrial land based sector and on-line gambling world and Nick has particular expertise with web based operations. He advises major leisure companies including Haven Leisure Limited, Butlins, Warner, Namco, Park Dean and Tenpin.
Recent work which Nick has undertaken includes advice on casinos, an application to the Alderney Gambling Control Commission, Temporary Use Notices, split premises licence applications, prize competitions and lotteries, gaming machines in clubs, and gambling in pubs.
He sits on the Bourne Leisure Group Gambling Risk Management Committee and on the Executive Committee of the Bingo Association. He has written gambling law qualifications and regularly delivers training to local authority officers, councillors, the police, operators, Personal Management Licence Holders and staff involved in gaming, betting and lotteries.
Nick contributes regularly to the trade press, including The Publican, the Morning Advertiser and the BII Business magazine.
Latterly, Nick has developed our employment law service in conjunction Hutchinson’s Solicitors, which provides retail operators with the basic employment documentation for members of staff, information pertinent to the leisure industry and regular news updates. Please see the 'Employment' section of the site.
Nick’s IT knowledge led him to conceiving, developing and refining a secure on-line portal to the firms database for clients which is effective and acts as a 24/7 window on their files held at the firm. Find out more about Licence2View
View Nick's LinkedIn Profile (opens in a new window)
Please feel free to contact
him
using the contact form below
My Recent Activity
- HMRC Announcement on SWP
- HMRC define SWP
- Pulling Sickies in the Summer Sun
- Unauthorised absence in the summer.
- New National Minimum Wage Rates
- New National Minimum Wage (NMW) rates from October 2010 and new NMW for Apprentices
- Poppleston Allen launch new HR service for Bii members
- Poppleston Allen launch new HR service for Bii members
- DCMS to consultant on licensing overseas on-line gambling operators
- Foreign gambling websites to be licensed.
- What do you do if one of your staff steals from you?
- What do you do if you receive information that a member of staff has been stealing from you?
