Photography and The Law

In week 4 of professional studies, we looked at the laws that are in placed that affects us as we enter the industry, this was to give us an idea of what our rights are as photographers and to follow up from the visit last week and expand on more laws and rights aside from terrorism and photography.
During this lesson I learnt a lot about my rights to photograph and discovered i'm allowed to photograph a lot more than I anticipated for example children, I was unaware that there are no laws against taking a picture of a child in the street without consent. 
Other laws which we discussed which I didn't have much knowledge on are about private property and how it is not illegal to take a picture of someones private property without permission as long as you are not on the property or trespassing as there are laws against that.
After learning about the laws around photography following our visit from the Poilce last week, it became obvious that you can be stopped and questioned by the poilce a lot in this industry due to the laws and restrictions on photography being quite confusing and therefore it was important we knew how to deal with the law enforcers if we are approached and questioned when not doing anything illegal whilst taking photographs, therefore we recieved a card which is aimed to remind people what our rights are as photographers.