“An e-cigarette company is set to test the UK’s almost 50-year ban on promoting smoking on TV, with a controversial advertising campaign telling smokers of the virtues of puffing on a product that uses nicotine.”
The Guardian, 15th January 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Cigarette packets could be stripped of all branding following a consultation beginning on Monday, the health secretary, Andrew Lansley, has revealed.”
The Guardian, 13th April 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Packets of cigarettes will disappear from the shelves of supermarkets in England on Friday and must stay hidden in closed cupboards, out of sight and – the government and campaigners hope – out of mind.”
The Guardian, 5th April 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Four leading tobacco manufacturers have dropped their judicial review bid against the Government’s plan to introduce a display ban on tobacco products.”
The Lawyer, 25th January 2012
Source: www.thelawyer.com
“A request by tobacco giant Philip Morris International to the University of Stirling has reignited concern about the use of freedom of information laws. The data it was interested in was collected as part of a survey of teenagers and smoking carried out by the university’s Centre for Tobacco Control Research.”
The Guardian, 1st September 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The prohibition on the sale of tobacco from automatic vending machines was justified on the ground of the protection of public health, was proportionate and therefore did not violate EU law by its adverse effect on the business of the operators of vending machines and suppliers in other EU states.”
WLR Daily, 17th June 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Please note that once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
“Patients sectioned under the Mental Health Act have won permission to bring a high court test case over a hospital smoking ban.”
The Guardian, 6th May 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Government announces rules to keep tobacco out of sight in shops and considers making plain packaging mandatory.”
The Guardian, 9th March 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“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
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