Stage set for Donna Traynor's battle with the BBC

Former Newsline presenter Donna Traynor is taking an industrial tribunal against the broadcaster and its Northern Ireland director, Adam Smyth.” Adam Smyth Ms Traynor was one of Northern Ireland’s most high-profile broadcasters.She said at the time: “It is with deep sadness that, after almost 33 years, I am leaving the job that I love and resigning from BBC Northern Ireland with immediate effect.Donna Traynor has taken an employment case against the BBC Donna Traynor Adam Smyth Adrian Rutherford An employment case taken against BBC NI by one of its best-known faces is set to open next week.

She added: “I am not persuaded that a fully private hearing, even if restricted to a portion of the hearing, would be proportionate as I consider that it is important that the press, as the eyes and ears of the public, can be in attendance to hear the detail of the material under scrutiny so that they can understand it with a view to reporting on it as and when permitted by order of the tribunal.” The judge instead imposed a hybrid privacy order, preventing, for a period, the reporting of certain information, and designating part of the hearing private, apart from the attendance of media representatives.