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Nottinghamshire | Patients win smoking ban appeal 

Jump to full article: BBC Online, 2008-09-04

Intro:

Two patients at a high security mental hospital in Nottinghamshire have won the right to appeal against a smoking ban on the premises.

An Appeal Court judge gave the Rampton hospital patients the right to bring a test case over the ban which was imposed in March 2007.

In May a High Court judge upheld the hospital's no-smoking policy for patients.

But the patients - known as G and N - argued it violated their human rights.

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