British Broadcasting Corporation v Sugar and another – WLR Daily

Posted February 13th, 2009 in BBC, freedom of information, law reports by sally

British Broadcasting Corporation v Sugar and another [2009] UKHL 9; [2009] WLR (D) 51

The BBC was a public authority for the purposes of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 so that a request for information which the BBC claimed was held for the purposes of journalism, and was therefore excluded from the requirements of disclosure, was subject to the jurisdiction of the Information Commissioner and, on appeal, the Information Tribunal, even if the information requested was held for the purposes of art, journalism or literature.”

WLR Daily, 12th February 2009

Source: www.lawreports.co.uk

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