Indeed, in a later case (Costello-Roberts, involving a boy slippered at prep school) the court reaffirmed that corporal punishment was not ipso facto contrary to the Convention. It threw the case out because the school was a private one and so the question of philosophical convictions wasn’t relevant – in other words, Ms Costello-Roberts had been perfectly at liberty not to send her son there in the first place if she didn’t approve of its disciplinary regime. This decision incidentally gives the lie to any idea that there was any pressing ECHR reason for Parliament’s later extension of the CP ban to private schools.
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