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An FOI and tribunal-based investigation into BBC disclosure, cannabis policy, and public interest concerns.
On 18 March 2026 HM Courts & Tribunal Service acknowledged receipt of an appeal against a tribunal ruling.
The ruling itself centred around whether the BBC were asked to stop reporting on potential conflicts of interest surrounding Theresa May and Victoria Atkins and cannabis, prior to the legalisation of medicinal cannabis use under prescription.
The BBC responded stating that any information, if held, would relate to journalism and was exempt.
They refused a route to Internal Review and suggested that I should contact the Information Commissioners Office (ICO) if I wasn’t happy.
I did so, citing Sugar v BBC [2012] UKSC 4, a case which established that information held to any significant degree for the purposes of journalism falls outside the scope of FOIA.
The issue, therefore, is not whether the journalism derogation exists — but whether it has been correctly applied. In other words, whether any information held is genuinely journalistic in nature, or whether it may also be held for other purposes, such as administrative or legal functions.
Unfortunately, the ICO sided with the BBC. They did not require the BBC to verify whether information was held, let alone whether it might be held for purposes outside of journalism.
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