United Kingdom

A prisoner claimed that smoking should be prohibited inside a state-run prison. The lower court ruled that the national law prohibiting smoking in workplaces also applied to prisons, including state prisons. The Secretary of State for Justice appealed the decision. The appeals court found that the state is not bound by the national law prohibiting smoking in the workplace.  Therefore, the prison was not required to implement the smoking ban. The prisoner then appealed the decision.  The Supreme Court unanimously dismissed the appeal. It held that Parliament must have intended that the Crown not be bound by the smoking ban, since it would otherwise have made express provision for it in the 2006 Health Act.