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Outgoing UK National Lottery operator Camelot is facing a fight in the High Court in London after a woman claims they owe her \u00a31 million in winnings.<\/p>\nOutgoing UK National Lottery operator Camelot is facing a fight in the High Court in London after a woman claims they owe her \u00a31 million in winnings.<\/p>\n
Camelot insist Joan Parker-Grennan had actually won \u00a310 and that their machine was playing up the day it told her she was entitled to \u00a31 million.<\/p>\n
But Mrs Parker-Grennan is having none of it. She is suing the company because the ticket she bought had alluded to her scooping the big prize. As a result Camelot were \u2018bound\u2019 over to pay her the sum, she said.<\/p>\n
Camelot\u2019s lawyers explained the premise of the game to the court, saying that if two winning numbers in the \u201cyour numbers\u201d section of the screen matched one in the winning numbers section, then those matching numbers were designed to turn white, showing the player had won a prize.<\/p>\n
The lawyers said the ticket for the plaintiff showed two numbers turning white and, instantly, a message informing her that she had won \u00a310. This was in line with what the computer had already predetermined. However, a technical issue Camelot had at the time Mrs Parker-Grennan bought her ticket between August 25 and 26, 2015, also flashed up two other winning numbers \u2013 this time for the \u00a31 million prize.<\/p>\n
Camelot\u2019s barrister Philip Hinks, head of the former operator\u2019s legal team, insist that the company is only liable to pay for the pre-determined amount decided by the machine. And that this was \u00a310, and not \u00a31 million.<\/p>\n
Mrs Parker-Grennan doesn\u2019t want the case to go ahead because she believes it would be a waste of time for Camelot and that the decision should be made in her favour at a summary trial.<\/p>\n
To the contrary, and as expected, Camelot\u2019s lawyers say that they believe the company has a very good chance of winning.<\/p>\n
The lawyers insisted there was a \u201csubstantial\u201d factual dispute \u2013 concerning what outcome had been predetermined by Camelot\u2019s computer system \u2013 between Mrs Parker-Grennan and Camelot, which a judge could not resolve summarily.<\/p>\n
But Mrs Parker-Grennan\u2019s lawyer hit back: \u201cThe defendant says that the terms mean that the claimant is bound by what it intended the outcome of the game to have been, despite the fact that was not what the game was programmed to do accorded with what the relevant contractual term said it could do.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said that on the \u201ctrue construction of the contract\u201d, his client should win the case and receive the \u00a31 million that the screen told her she had won.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Outgoing UK National Lottery operator Camelot is facing a fight in the High Court in London after a woman claims they owe her \u00a31 million in winnings. Camelot insist Joan Parker-Grennan had actually won \u00a310 and that their machine was playing up the day it told her she was entitled to \u00a31 million. But Mrs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":36099,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2,11,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-gaming","category-headlines","category-latest"],"yoast_head":"\n