School corporal punishment the case of teenage boys) the clothed buttocks. "Slippering"—striking the buttocks with a rubber-soled gym shoe, or plimsoll shoe—was widely used in many schools, for example King's School, Macclesfield, a boys grammar school in Cheshire. In a few English cities, a strap was used instead of the cane. In Scotland a leather strap, the tawse, administered to the palms of the hands, was universal in state schools, but some private schools used the cane. Prior to the ban in private schools in England, the "slippering" of a student at an independent boarding school was challenged in 1993 before the European
Abolition of Corporal Punishment Act, 1997 Abolition of Corporal Punishment Act, 1997 The Abolition of Corporal Punishment Act, 1997 (Act No. 33 of 1997) is an act of the Parliament of South Africa that abolished judicial corporal punishment. It followed the Constitutional Court's 1995 decision in the case of "S v Williams and Others" that caning of juveniles was unconstitutional. Although the ruling in "S v Williams" was limited to the corporal punishment of males under the age of 21, Justice Langa mentioned in "dicta" that there was a consensus that corporal punishment of adults was also unconstitutional. The act contains two substantive sections. The first