http://www.winnipegsun.com/News/Canada/2008/06/19/5924686.html
TORONTO — The father of a feisty 12-year-old girl says he’s going to appeal a decision by Quebec’s Superior Court that ruled last week he had no right to discipline his daughter by barring her from a school trip.
The Globe and Mail reports that the man first banned his daughter from going online after she posted photos of herself on a dating site.
Then the Grade 6 student, whose parents are divorced, allegedly had a row with her stepmother, after which her father said she could not go on a three-day school trip that would mark her class’ graduation from elementary school.
The girl, who’s been staying with her biological mother since May, took the matter to court and Madame Justice Suzanne Tessier ruled on Friday in her favour.
The father’s lawyer, Kim Beaudoin, says his client, who’s stunned by the decision, feels like he’s lost his daughter and wants to appeal so no other parents will go through what he has.
Trying to avoid having grounded teenagers rushing to the nearest courthouse, lawyers for both sides insist the judge’s decision applies only to this girl’s unusual circumstances.
