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
The Law of Corporal Punishment in England and Wales The Law of Corporal Punishment in England and Wales Battery punishment by parents of their minor children is lawful by tradition and explicitly under common law by R v Hopley [1860 ] 2F&F 202 (the justification of Lawful Correction):""By the law of England, a parent" [expunged, related to school teachers] "may for the purpose of correcting what is evil in the child inflict moderate and reasonable corporal punishment, always, however, with this condition, that it is moderate and reasonable."" The common law of England and Wales has a general prohibition against physical contact and battery. The Crown Prosecution Service charging