The Christian Education Case
1998
Christian Education South Africa v Minister of Education
The use of corporal punishment in schools
The issue in this case was whether Christian Education Schools that were set up specifically on the principle of ‘spare the rod, spoil the child,’ were entitled to a religious exemption from a general prohibition on the use of corporal punishment in schools introduced into a new Schools Act. Having been asked to write the lead judgment for the Court, Justice Sachs reflects on the way in which two competing experiences of his own
