(2)Subject to subsection (3) below, references in this section to giving corporal punishment are references to doing anything for the purposes of punishing the pupil concerned (whether or not there are also other reasons for doing it) which, apart from any justification, would constitute battery.
Should unlawful incidents of school CP be taken to the Courts8
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The Use of the Tawse4
A serious reply to the original post: the strap was mostly in modern times applied to the hand (Newcastle,...
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Caning from of the Times25
“(Therefore, bigger boys or men were to ill-treat the big little boys. What an argument! – Ed. D.P.] “Flogging...
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Auntie Deirdre Takes Charge9
I was finally let up, a blubbering wreck. Auntie Deirdre took me by the hand and steered me over...
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Mrs Hamilton5
My father’s words haunted me, and I wanted to do the right thing and tell what I had seen...
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Corporal Punishment in Mixed Secondary Modern13
Also, we know that censorship on FR, etc encourages self-censorship, for the usual reasons of shame, fears of legal...
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School Punishment Book39
My parents never knew, I don’t know if they would approve or not, I suspect not. it happened in...
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Corporal Punishment & The Gender Disadvantage65
In my school (and even though I am retired, it’s still my school ) there are perhaps 2% of boys...
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Females of the Military11
This lady said that overseas the discipline was a lot stricter than in England and that Wren ratings were...