Pat Rodrigue - Lawyer
GamblingCompliance Ltd.
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Patrice is a qualified lawyer in Canada. He trained as a Crown prosecutor and worked for the City of Montreal before joining a commercial litigation firm. Prior to joining GamblingCompliance.com, he was advising a Canadian entertainment company in their joint venture with a Las Vegas corporation. Patrice also represented Canada’s largest media conglomerate in libel actions brought against its newspapers and radio stations.
Patrice holds a Master of Science degree from Oxford University where he specialised in the study of Asian trademark counterfeiting. He also holds an LLM in Intellectual Property Law from the Queen Mary University of London and a LLB in Civil Law from Universite Laval in Quebec City, Canada.
Patrice is responsible for researching and writing regulatory content on GamblingCompliance.com
Groupe Partouche has reportedly put its Djerba casino for sale, less than a year after it opened a second casino in Tunis.Tunisia experienced a small decrease in visitor numbers in 2009 but tourism revenues actually increased.
The British Columbia Lottery Corporation is counting on rapid growth of its PlayNow.com website, the first legal casino-style online gaming operation in North America, expecting its profits to reach C$40m by 2012.
The last month has seen a number of developments in the licensing process in 5 of the 16 communities where new casinos can be built under the Gambling Act 2005.
Quebec's finance minister has approved Loto-Québec's plans for offering online gambling despite calls by public health officials to review the project to ensure it will not lead to a major increase in gambling participation.
Monaco's casino monopoly Société des Bains de Mer sought to offset its dwindling casino revenues by diversifying its interests and acquiring 50 percent of Mangas Capital Gaming, a company which now owns the BetClick, Bet-at-home, Expekt and recently Everest online gaming brands. Outdoor gambling areas have also been installed in casinos to counter the smoking ban set up in 2008.
In the wake of the recent football match-fixing scandal, Turkey has adopted a tougher stance on illegal online betting and match-fixing. Although privatisation of the National Lottery has been shelved, lottery revenues have enjoyed a steady increase.
The draft gaming bill tabled by minister Carl Devlies last year, which introduces the licensing of online gambling, was passed by parliament in December 2009 and must be enacted by January 2011.
Beyond its calls for a reform of the lottery legislation, Switzerland has also announced a reform of casino laws which will allow for licences to be issued for online casino and poker games.
Beset by the global financial crisis and increasing competition in neighboring states, Mississippi posted the lowest state wide casino revenues since 1998.
The decision by Las Vegas Sands (LVS) to follow the lead of Wynn in floating their operations in Hong Kong has led to speculation that MGM will do the same, confirming the Hong Kong Stock exchange is now the main commercial hub for the gaming industry in Asia.
