David Miers is Professor of Law at Cardiff University.
`Miers leads us with thoroughness and authority but also with an agreeable lightness of touch through all the main pieces of gambling legislation...Miers' book however, is not simply a fine resource for anyone interested in UK gambling law. It is also a fascinating social history and implies an exploration of profound issues in political theory about the freedom of individuals to choose how to live their own lives...Miers gives a fine, lucid and accurate account of the legal and political thinking which led up to the new Bill in its 2004 form...no serious student of gambling can afford to be without this book.' Peter Collins, Society for the study of Gambling, Newsletter 39