Liverpool school to fight for the right to smack pupils

A private Christian school in Liverpool is taking its fight for the right to smack pupils with parents' consent to the Court of Appeal.

The Christian Fellowship School had an application for a judicial review of whether legislation banning corporal punishment applied to independent as well as state schools rejected by the High Court last year.

If it did, argued the school, it breached the right of Christians to practise their religion according to their beliefs as protected by the European Convention on Human Rights.