A genuine religious belief which supported the use of corporal punishment in schools was not itself either a manifestation of religious belief which required protection under the convention, or a religious and philosophical conviction for the purposes of the right to education provisions of article 2. A religiously founded belief that corporal punishment should be imposed was not a philosophical or religious conviction.
Justice Elias
Times 12-Dec-2001, [2001] EWHC Admin 960, [2002] ELR 214
Bailii
European Convention on Human Rights Art 2, 9, Education Act 1996 548
England and Wales
Cited by:
Appeal from – Regina (Williamson and Others) v Secretary of State for Education and Employment CA 12-Dec-2002
The claimants sought a declaration that the restriction on the infliction of corporal punishment in schools infringed their human right of freedom of religion. The schools concerned were Christian schools who believed that moderate corporal . .
Cited – Regina v Secretary of State for Education and Employment and others ex parte Williamson and others HL 24-Feb-2005
The appellants were teachers in Christian schools who said that the blanket ban on corporal punishment interfered with their religious freedom. They saw moderate physical discipline as an essential part of educating children in a Christian manner. . .
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Education, Children, Human Rights
Updated: 04 December 2021; Ref: scu.167115