View source for R (G) v Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust (2008) EWHC 1096 (Admin)

''HUMAN RIGHTS — Right to respect for private and family life — Smoking ban — Claimants detainees at high security psychiatric hospital — Regulation providing mental health units temporary exemption from smoking ban — Whether regulation to be read as providing mental health units with permanent exemption — Whether interference with claimants’ Convention rights — Human Rights Act 1998, s 3(1), Sch 1, Pt 1, arts 8, 14 — Smoke-free (Exemption & Vehicles) Regulations 2007 (SI 2007/765), reg 10(3). A provision which had the effect of prohibiting smoking in a high security psychiatric hospital was not incompatible with the human rights of detained mental patients and was not unlawful.''

==Related judgments==
[[R (N) v SSH; R (E) v Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust (2009) EWCA Civ 795]]

*[[R (G) v Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust (2008) EWHC 1096 (Admin)]]

==ICLR==
{{ICLR|R (G) v Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust (2008) EWHC 1096 (Admin)}}

==External links==
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[http://www.lawreports.co.uk/WLRD/2008/QBD/may0.5.htm ICLR website] - The [[ICLR]] have kindly agreed that their case report [2008] WLR (D) 162 be used on this site.

[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/nottinghamshire/7409962.stm BBC 20/5/08: Patients lose smoking ban appeal]

[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/nottinghamshire/7598190.stm BBC 9/9/08:  Patients win smoking ban appeal] - Court of Appeal gives permission to appeal. Hearing likely to be before Christmas.

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