By Sarah Smithon Thursday, 1 Nov 2007 The Court of Appeal has ruled that a lady who won over £100,000 on the bingo does not have to split her winnings with the friends she was playing with.
After winning the jackpot in January, Tania Burnett from Plymouth was taken to court by her two friends Stacey Wilson and Abigail Stacey who claimed that she had backed out of a deal to share any winnings.
However, Lord Justice May has ruled that such an agreement is "casual" and therefore not legally binding.
The judge said: "Miss Wilson and Miss Stacey's bare bones account of what they say was agreed scarcely stands as an agreement enforceable and binding in law."
His ruling confirms that of Exeter County Court earlier this year, which also disclaimed any legality in the friends' agreement.
Lord May's ruling will please another bingo winner in Glasgow who scooped a cool million earlier this year and is now being taken to court by two friends who also claim she verbally agreed to split her winnings with them.
It seems that when it comes to bingo winnings sisters are doing it for themselves, not each other.
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