Overview of the UK Pornography Laws
This section concentrates mainly on those aspects of the UK laws relating to obscenity which have particular reference to the Internet. The UK obscenity legislation has recently been amended by the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 ('CJPOA 1994'). This was mainly because of the fear of child pornography and in particular to bring the UK laws up-to-date with technological changes [3] . The following headings will show, however, that there are difficulties with the application of existing laws and their enforcement with respect to the Internet.