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Parental punishment found excessive in Canada

By Douglas A. Berman

Thanks to this humorous post from Eugene Volokh about a hard-to-believe true story, I found press reports here and here about a Canadian superiour court ruling about excessive parental punishment.  Here are the basics from this press account:First, the father banned his 12-year-old daughter from going online after she posted photos of herself on a dating site.  Then she allegedly had a row with her stepmother, so the father said his girl couldn't go on a school trip.  The girl took the matter to the court ? and won what lawyers say was an unprecedented judgment.  Madam Justice Suzanne Tessier of the Quebec Superior Court ruled on Friday that the father couldn't discipline his daughter by barring her from the school trip...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on June 19, 2008 (boomark / email).