{"id":34121,"date":"2013-04-10T08:42:15","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T12:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=34121"},"modified":"2013-04-10T08:42:15","modified_gmt":"2013-04-10T12:42:15","slug":"game-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/04\/game-over","title":{"rendered":"Game Over?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/04\/game-over-34121.html\/webshops\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-34122\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-34122\" title=\"webshops\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/webshops.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/webshops.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/webshops-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>Chief Justice Sir Michael Barnett lifted a conservatory order granted on January 30 that protected web shops from police interference.<\/p>\n<p>The decision by Sir Michael to discharge the order granted by Senior Justice Jon Isaacs has raised uncertainty about the fate of web shops.<\/p>\n<p>It was unclear whether police planned to shut down web shop gaming, pursuant to a directive issued by Prime Minister Perry Christie on January 29, 2013.<\/p>\n<p>The directive came a day after a majority of people who voted in a referendum voted against the taxation and regulation of web shop gaming and the establishment of a national lottery.<\/p>\n<p>Sir Michael said, &#8220;This is not a proper case for the court to exercise its discretion to restrain the police from discharging their duties as they consider it proper to do&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The Office of the Attorney General has asked the court to discharge the conservatory order granted by Isaacs.<\/p>\n<p>Attorneys representing a group of web shop operators &#8211; including the <em>incomparable<\/em> Wayne Munroe &#8211; were seeking to have that order extended until the court rules on their substantive case.<\/p>\n<p>They argue that what their clients do is &#8220;legal&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Justice Sir Michael Barnett lifted a conservatory order granted on January 30 that protected web shops from police interference. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[569,502],"class_list":["post-34121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-referendum","tag-web-shops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}