# 35 - WTL : The Abolishment of Corporal Punishment

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Sv Williams and Others (CCT20/94) [1995] ZACC 6; 1995 (3) SA 632 ; 1995 (7) BCLR 861 (CC) (9

June 1995) (saflii.org)

S v Williams and Others 1995 (2) SACR 251 (CC) - Dullah Omar Institute

S v Williams and Others (concourt.org.za)

saconstitution-web-eng.pdf (justice.gov.za)

International case law stated in trial:

Vuolanne v Finland 96 ILR 649, 657.

P van Dijk and GJH van Hoof, Theory and Practice of the European Convention on Human Rights,

(1990), 2 ed., 226-227.

Denmark et al v Greece: Report of 5 November 1969, Yearbook of the European Convention on Human Rights XII (1969), 186

The Republic of Ireland v The United Kingdom (1979-80) 2 EHRR 25, 80, paragraph 167

408 US 238 (1972). This case held that capital punishment in the then existing statute, providing for capital punishment, in the State of Georgia was unconstitutional

Smith v The Queen (1988) 31 CRR 193, 213.

Supra note 3.

Supra note 13, at 721H.

Supra note 5. At 4621-J Greenland J agreed with the characterisation of corporal punishment as

"barbaric, inherently brutal, cruel, inhuman and degrading."