The burden of proof: should we be regulating for the few or the many?
Gibraltar Gambling Commissioner Andrew Lyman questions the increasing public role in worldwide gambling regulation
Lived experience
“You can come to me with as many spreadsheets and graphs as you like providing evidence that there has been no rise in problem gambling, but if I have just had a meeting with a group of individuals whose lives have been blighted by gambling, where does the balance of persuasion lie?”Andrew Lyman is the Gibraltar Gambling Commissioner and executive director of the Gibraltar Gambling Division. After a law enforcement career, he became a regulatory lawyer and was part of the senior management team responsible for formation of the UK Gambling Commission. Before returning to the public sector in Gibraltar, he spent a decade in public affairs and regulatory roles in the gambling industry.