Gambling addict suing casino for "allowing" her to lose £2m

[Sebasty1987]

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[eldude]

On 7/5/2014 at 5:28 PM, imangelo said:

She'll never get away with it in court...but then again, I didn't think that lady who got millions for hot coffee burning her would get a dime.

She didn't get millions, $640k for third degree burns in probably the worst spot possible. 

A lot of misconceptions around that case. 

[Habana Mike]

Nice necropost!

[eldude]

1 hour ago, Habana Mike said:

Nice necropost!

From way back in 2014. 

Either way, here was the outcome of the lawsuit for those interested. 

https://www.arabianbusiness.com/saudi-heiress-ridiculed-by-judge-in-3m-ritz-gambling-case-561909.html

[Ken Gargett]

1 hour ago, eldude said:

From way back in 2014. 

Either way, here was the outcome of the lawsuit for those interested. 

https://www.arabianbusiness.com/saudi-heiress-ridiculed-by-judge-in-3m-ritz-gambling-case-561909.html

unfortunately, unless i agree to receive ads from this mob, i can't read the piece but it sounds as though sense prevailed.

for the life of me, and it may be best if no one answers this unless someone can do so without transgressing, it is beyond me why people think this is political? i see absolutely nothing political in this at all. 

[eldude]

Here you are, Ken. She lost her case and it sounds like she could more than afford the debt. 

 

An “unimaginably rich” Saudi heiress who lost £2
million ($3.3m) in one night of gambling at a London casino has been ridiculed
by a high court judge and ordered to pay everything she owed, according to
British media.

Noora Abdullah Mahawish Al Daher, the daughter of a
wealthy Saudi and married to Omani Foreign Minister Sayyid Badr bin Hamad bin
Hamood Al Busaidi, was sued by The Ritz hotel’s Piccadilly casino after cheques
that she used as credit while playing a card game, totalling £1 million ($1.66 million),
bounced.

Al Daher, 47, launched a counter-claim, arguing
that staff wrongly allowed her to gamble on credit. She claimed she was a
gambling addict and should be given back the £1 million ($1.66 million) she had already paid.

But UK High Court Judge Anthony Seys Llewellyn
threw out her case, saying she was fully responsible for her actions, the Daily
Mail has reported.

Judge Llewellyn said the loss was no catastrophe
for “Princess Nora”, as she is known.

He said her wealth was so extreme she had once had
£6 million transferred into her account over a period of 10 days after claiming
she “needed it to pay for the kids”.

Two months after her losses in London, she and her
family lost another £3 million in Las Vegas, the court heard.

“Mrs Al Daher is a person of wealth unimaginable to
the ordinary person and, I suspect, to many of moderate or substantial wealth,”
Judge Llewellyn reportedly said.

“The enormous sums she gambled and the enormous
losses she sustained were within her means.”

It took Al Daher just hours to reach her £1.7
million cheque limit playing the card game punto banco – a type of baccarat at
the Piccadilly casino on April 3, 2012.

At her request, the limit was then extended to £2
million. She also lost the addition amount, while also giving out £14,000 in
tips to the dealer and other staff, the Daily Mail said.

During the case, Al Daher argued she had been a
“vulnerable” gambling addict since 1999, and casino staff were at fault because
they had “positively encouraged” her to keep playing when she reached her
limit.

“I refused to deal with the thought that I was a
gambler and, for that matter, a high roller,” she told the court.

“I always felt that I was in control and could stop
whenever I wanted to... I needed someone that night to tell me to stop playing
and bring me to my senses.”

But Judge Llewellyn said she had given no sign that
her gambling was out of control and she did not present any medical or
psychiatric evidence to show she was a gambling addict.

She had been a regular at the casino and often
spent “outrageously”.

“She exhibited no signs of distress, irritation,
anger or loss of control that evening,” Judge Llewellyn said in his verdict.

“It is striking that she and her family gambled
away five million US dollars in Las Vegas in June, some two to three months
later.

“The scale of her wealth... is an inescapable
feature of this case, as is the fact that, for those with the means to do so,
it may be acceptable, or even enjoyable, to ride the roller coaster of losses.”

He rejected claims that Mrs Al Daher had been given
credit in breach of gaming rules.

Al Daher, who lives in Muscat, was ordered to pay
the £1 million she owed, plus interest.

[Ken Gargett]

27 minutes ago, eldude said:

Here you are, Ken. She lost her case and it sounds like she could more than afford the debt. 

 

An “unimaginably rich” Saudi heiress who lost £2
million ($3.3m) in one night of gambling at a London casino has been ridiculed
by a high court judge and ordered to pay everything she owed, according to
British media.

Noora Abdullah Mahawish Al Daher, the daughter of a
wealthy Saudi and married to Omani Foreign Minister Sayyid Badr bin Hamad bin
Hamood Al Busaidi, was sued by The Ritz hotel’s Piccadilly casino after cheques
that she used as credit while playing a card game, totalling £1 million ($1.66 million),
bounced.

Al Daher, 47, launched a counter-claim, arguing
that staff wrongly allowed her to gamble on credit. She claimed she was a
gambling addict and should be given back the £1 million ($1.66 million) she had already paid.

But UK High Court Judge Anthony Seys Llewellyn
threw out her case, saying she was fully responsible for her actions, the Daily
Mail has reported.

Judge Llewellyn said the loss was no catastrophe
for “Princess Nora”, as she is known.

He said her wealth was so extreme she had once had
£6 million transferred into her account over a period of 10 days after claiming
she “needed it to pay for the kids”.

Two months after her losses in London, she and her
family lost another £3 million in Las Vegas, the court heard.

“Mrs Al Daher is a person of wealth unimaginable to
the ordinary person and, I suspect, to many of moderate or substantial wealth,”
Judge Llewellyn reportedly said.

“The enormous sums she gambled and the enormous
losses she sustained were within her means.”

It took Al Daher just hours to reach her £1.7
million cheque limit playing the card game punto banco – a type of baccarat at
the Piccadilly casino on April 3, 2012.

At her request, the limit was then extended to £2
million. She also lost the addition amount, while also giving out £14,000 in
tips to the dealer and other staff, the Daily Mail said.

During the case, Al Daher argued she had been a
“vulnerable” gambling addict since 1999, and casino staff were at fault because
they had “positively encouraged” her to keep playing when she reached her
limit.

“I refused to deal with the thought that I was a
gambler and, for that matter, a high roller,” she told the court.

“I always felt that I was in control and could stop
whenever I wanted to... I needed someone that night to tell me to stop playing
and bring me to my senses.”

But Judge Llewellyn said she had given no sign that
her gambling was out of control and she did not present any medical or
psychiatric evidence to show she was a gambling addict.

She had been a regular at the casino and often
spent “outrageously”.

“She exhibited no signs of distress, irritation,
anger or loss of control that evening,” Judge Llewellyn said in his verdict.

“It is striking that she and her family gambled
away five million US dollars in Las Vegas in June, some two to three months
later.

“The scale of her wealth... is an inescapable
feature of this case, as is the fact that, for those with the means to do so,
it may be acceptable, or even enjoyable, to ride the roller coaster of losses.”

He rejected claims that Mrs Al Daher had been given
credit in breach of gaming rules.

Al Daher, who lives in Muscat, was ordered to pay
the £1 million she owed, plus interest.

thanks for that.

i wonder if she wanted the 14K back from the croupiers she flicked them as a tip?

 

[ha_banos]

On 7/5/2014 at 1:45 PM, Ken Gargett said:

read it in the press over here. insane. hope her lawyers get rich and she is found on a park bench with a paper bag and a vomit covered shopping trolley.

not politics. just idiocy.

i suspect that hubbie has come home and said, enough. get it back or go. and she has tried this on, to see if the casino will fork up something to make it go away. and she is in for some disappointment.

No. Hope the lawyers don't make a dime. Unruly lot who make money out of a patent battle about things like swiping to unlock a phone.