Psychiatric patients lose smoking ban legal challenge

In one of the first legal challenges to the smoking ban, High Court judges have ruled that patients should not be allowed to smoke indoors at a high security psychiatric hospital.

Three patients at Rampton hospital in Nottinghamshire had argued that a ban on them smoking “in the privacy of their own home” was a violation of their human rights, but the judges ruled that any interference with their rights was justified.

Rampton patients are detained for long periods because they... (76 more words)

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