The claimants contend this ban (total ban on the use of corporal punishment in all schools) is incompatible with their Convention rights.
The issue contested was that the respondent’s (muslim) exclusion from school, due to repeated violations of the uniform code, unjustifiably limited, inter alia, her right under Article 9 of the Convention to manifest her religion and beliefs.
The appellant practised scientology. She planned to get married in a Church of Scientology.
E complained that the exclusion of his son, M, from admission to the appellant school had been racially discriminatory.