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
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