A fascinating snapshot of a pivotal moment in history, when a schoolboy victory turned the tide in the battle for equality.

Until 1983 Sikh schoolboys in British schools could still be refused the right to wear a turban on the grounds that it did not conform to a school's uniform. One such case in 1980 prompted a three-year legal battle which was eventually decided by five Law Lords, who agreed the practice was a breach of the 1976 Race Relations Act. It's a telling example of the battles some ethnic minorities still faced in the fight for equality, years after equality was theoretically confirmed in UK law.

An edition of the Tyne Tees Television current affairs programme Briefing that begins by looking at the positive attempts being made in the region to breakdown barriers between various ethnic communities, and how the 1976 Race Relations Act has helped or hindered. In the final part of the programme a studio discussion on Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government's attempt to enact the Police and Criminal Evidence Bill and its implications on privacy and race relations. Due to problems in the source video, there are distortions in the image during in-studio sections.