When Edinburgh City Council banned the filming of school nativity plays last Christmas, it provoked a storm of protest from parents angry that town hall bureaucrats were preventing them from recording an important event in their child's life.
The local authority feared that it might be sued under the Human Rights Act (HRA) if pictures taken at a school event breached a child's right to privacy. Ironically, it was the threat of legal action by a parent, using exactly the same legislation and arguing that the HRA also gives people a right to a family life, which prompted the council to rescind the ban.
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