The Supreme Court found institutions are not obliged to provide smoking rooms in mental health units.
Thu, 22 Jun 2017
A challenge to a district health board’s smoke-free policy by a former inpatient at the board’s acute inpatient mental health units has failed in the Supreme Court as it did in the courts below it.
The judgment, B* v Waitemata District Board by Justices William Young, Susan Glazebrook, Terence