Tawse Tawse The tawse, sometimes formerly spelled taws (the plural of Scots taw, a thong of a whip) is an implement used for corporal punishment. It was used for educational discipline, primarily in Scotland, but also in schools in the English cities of Newcastle upon Tyne, Gateshead, Manchester and Walsall. A tawse consists of a strip of leather, with one end split into a number of tails. The thickness of the leather and the number of tails is variable. Many Scottish saddlers made tawses for local schoolmasters. The official name "tawse" was hardly ever used in conversation by either teachers or
School corporal punishment offence. In that year a sentence by the Federal Court of Justice of Germany ("Bundesgerichtshof", case number NStZ 1993.591) was published which overruled the previous powers enshrined in unofficial customary law ("Gewohnheitsrecht") and upheld by some regional appeal courts ("Oberlandesgericht", Superior State Court) even in the 1970s. They assumed a "right of chastisement" was a defense of justification against the accusation of "causing bodily harm" per "Paragraph" (=Section) "223 Strafgesetzbuch" (Federal Penal Code). Corporal punishment in Greek primary schools was banned in 1998, and in secondary schools in 2005. Corporal punishment is still used in most of India. The Delhi