“Government plans to ban cigarette vending machines to help prevent under-age smoking were upheld as lawful by the High Court today.”
The Independent, 1st December 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Merton London Borough Council v Sinclair Collis Ltd [2010] WLR (D) 286
“Notwithstanding the civil complaint procedure embodied in s 7(2) of the Children and Young Persons Act 1933 (as amended), a sale of tobacco to a person under the age of 18 through a cigarette vending machine was capable of being an offence contrary to s 7(1) of the 1933 Act.”
WLR Daily, 10th November 2010
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
“A prisoner addicted to tobacco is seeking damages after he was banned from smoking for swearing at a prison officer.”
Daily Telegraph, 22nd March 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A former pub landlord who is thought to be the first person in the UK to be jailed after flouting the smoking ban is ‘devastated’, his wife says.”
BBC News, 27th February 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Smokers could be forced to light up away from the entrances to public buildings under government moves aimed at ensuring that no more than one in 10 Britons smoke cigarettes.”
The Guardian, 1st February 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A lorry driver lost his bid to overturn a smoking fine despite claiming he was using an ‘electric’ cigarette.”
BBC News, 3rd August 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A policy of banning smoking in the premises of an NHS trust, which had the effect of prohibiting smoking for those detained in a high security psychiatric hospital, did not contravene the patients’ human rights and was lawful.”
WLR Daily, 28th July 2009
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
“A landlord who has refused to enforce the smoking ban is in a High Court battle over his local council’s bid to revoke his premises licence.”
BBC News, 2nd December 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Smokers in a north-east London borough will not be able to foster children from January 2012 – unless there are ‘exceptional circumstances’.
BBC News, 5th November 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A hotel owner has been prosecuted for smoking a cigarette in her property while nobody else was there.”
Daily Telegraph, 7th August 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A self-employed painter and decorator has been given a £30 on-the-spot fine for smoking in his own van because it is classified as a workplace.”
The Times, 25th July 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The smoking ban is being extended to the buildings and grounds of mental health hospitals in England.”
BBC News, 1st July 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Cigarette vending machines and packets of 10 could be outlawed under government plans aimed at preventing children and young people smoking.”
BBC News, 31st May 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Queen’s Bench Divisional Court
“Preventing detained mental patients from smoking was not a breach of article 8, right to respect for private and family life, or article 14, prohibiting discrimination, of the European Convention on Human Rights.”
The Times, 28th May 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
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“Cigarettes will be banned from public display in shops and vending machines are to be scrapped under dramatic new plans designed to curb smoking among young people.”
The Independent, 26th May 2008
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“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.”
WLR Daily, 21st May 2008
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
“High Court judges have ruled psychiatric patients should not be allowed to smoke at a high security mental hospital.”
BBC News, 20th May 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Seventy nine people and one business have been prosecuted for flouting the smoking ban in the year since it was introduced in Wales, figures show.”
BBC News, 2nd April 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The first landlord in England to be prosecuted under the smoking ban has been fined again for continuing to allow his customers to light up.”
BBC News, 26th March 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Cigarettes are to be forced beneath shop counters with supermarkets and cornershops banned from displaying tobacco products, The Times has learnt.”
The Times, 24th March 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
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