It looks like the BBC definition of 'irrelevant' will be tested in public, after a ruling that it should think again about 3,200 emails, documents and pieces of correspondence withheld from journalist Andy Webb chasing the story of Martin Bashir's misbehaviour at Panorama in 1995.
Judge Brian Kennedy KC, in his Information Rights Tribunal judgement says 'It is not clear why the BBC has gone to such lengths to withhold information that it classes as 'irrelevant', despite that information falling within the scope of the search parameters that it devised and used'.
'The BBC's piecemeal and disjunctive approach to its searches for information responsive to the request, and its handling of the request more generally, is a cause of serious concern'.
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