"irrelevant consideration" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to a factor or aspect that is not relevant or important to the situation or decision at hand. Example: The prosecutor argued that the defendant's financial struggles were an irrelevant consideration in the murder case, as it did not excuse the act of taking another person's life.
The gossipy brouhaha surrounding it rendered its literary merit a secondary, perhaps even an irrelevant consideration.
HMRC accepts that was an irrelevant consideration and should have not featured in his decision-making process".
Judge Nicol said the tax authorities had already accepted that their decision was based in part on "an irrelevant consideration".
They say that the cost of punishment is an irrelevant consideration when deciding a criminal's fate and that there is a risk of overlooking the larger social costs of crime.
Steinberg also insisted that the decision wasn't based on sexual orientation: "We did not interpret the content in question as involving any particular sexual orientation, and frankly that would have been a completely irrelevant consideration under any circumstance".
If provision of freedom for its own sake is morally of first-priority importance, then the fact that freedom in this instance will do nobody any good would seem to be an irrelevant consideration.
Compromise based on legally irrelevant considerations is encouraged, and disputes are often resolved by techniques that fall outside formal law.
In this Brave New World, students are to be graded on mastery of material rather than irrelevant considerations like organization.
The decision was based on "irrelevant considerations" like reputational risks to the government, and should be declared unlawful by the court, Ms. Simler said.
He classes Erasmus not among the Ciceronian rhetoricians but among the sophists, both ancient and modern, who habitually beg the question and conceal a weak case behind a flood of words and irrelevant considerations.
Intelligible reasons are those that members of the public can see as reasons for those who advance (or rely upon) them, as opposed to mere utterances, expressions of emotions, irrational demands or other irrelevant considerations.
