By Emma Upton

Race relations act 1976 The BBC last night launched an inquiry into a job

advertisement that appeared to flagrantly breach the Race Relations Act by seeking an Oriental or Asian person to front a new series.

The makers of a ten-part BBC2 science programme sent a wish list of attributes they were looking for to, among others, casting directors, agents and management companies.

It said they were seeking a "young, zany Oriental or Asian person with a science background". But even the science background could be ditched, the advert implied, for the right ethnic man or woman.

Human Rights Act 1998 Unaired footage of Clarkson screened on our

website showed him reciting the beginning of the children’s nursery rhyme before apparently mumbling: “Catch a n***er by his toe.”

Clarkson said he “mumbled where the offensive word would normally occur” in two takes, and used the word “teacher” in its place in a third

He then made a video apologising for the comment.

Licensing Act 2003 The Act sets out four licensing objectives which must

be taken into account when a local authority carries out its functions. They are:

the prevention of crime and disorder,

public safety,

prevention of public nuisance, and

the protection of children from harm

Privacy law Privacy in English law is a developing area of English

law that considers in what situations an individual has a legal right to informational privacy the protection of personal or private information from unauthoriseddisclosure.

The guardian the latest scandal was very recent and it was about the news of the world phone hacking celebrities to find out things that should’ve remained out of the public domain, they were sued and the paper has now been shut down completely

Copyright & Intellectual Property Law Under intellectual property law, owners are granted certain

exclusive rights to a variety of intangible assets, such as musical, literary, and artistic works, words, phrases, symbols, and designs. Common types of intellectual property rights include copyright, trademarks, patents, industrial design rights, trade dress, and in some jurisdictions trade secrets.

The way to stop people ripping you off is get your idea patented and copyright.

For example, it was made illegal to download music without the right from the owner.

Libel Law Libel is published defamation of character, as opposed

to spoken defamation of character, which is then slander.

Libel is when the defamation is written down, which includes email, bulletin boards, websites e.g: social media sites. Which can then be taken to court as evidence.

An example of this is when the Comedian Frankie Boyle won £54,650 in damages after he took the Daily Mirror to court after they had libelled him by describing him as ‘racist’.

Obscene Publication Act This act made it illegal to publish any form of work

which is obscene, this was then extended to include films and videos in 1977.

An example of this act is David Britton’s ‘Lord Horror’ which was banned under the act, but then later overturned.

Broadcasting Act The Broadcasting Act 1990 is a law of the British parliament,

often regarded by both its supporters and its critics as a quintessential example of Thatcherism. The aim of the Act was to reform the entire structure of British broadcasting; British television, in particular, had earlier been described by Margaret Thatcher as "the last bastion of restrictive practices".

It led directly to the abolition of the Independent Broadcasting Authority and its replacement with the Independent Television Commission and Radio Authority (both themselves now replaced by Ofcom), which were given the remit of regulating with a "lighter touch" and did not have such strong powers as the IBA; some referred to this as "deregulation"