The European Court of Human Rights decided unfavourably on school CP.
Well, did they? I don’t believe that they did. Corporal punishment in schools in the UK has been banned as a result of an Act of Parliament, rather than a decision of a European Court. Furthermore, Parliament was not required to make that decision as a result of any decision of a European Court.
To demonstrate this, I shall quote part of the decision of the House of Lords in the case Regina v. Secretary of State for Education and Employment and
others (Respondents) ex parte Williamson (Appellant) and others, 2005. This was the case where some parents claimed that their religious beliefs required their children to be subject to CP at school, if their behaviour warranted it. The parents’ claim was rejected, but this part of the opinion of Lord Bingham of Cornhill, Lord Chief Justice, is relevant: