News

Find out what’s happening at Sackers. Our News section provides information about recent work, press comment and media coverage, and what our people are doing.

Latest News

Brass Trustees Limited v Goldstone and the PPF (High Court) – 31 July 2023

The High Court has approved a trustee’s decision to issue petitions to wind up the sponsoring employers (“the Sponsor”) of its occupational pension scheme (“the Scheme”). Background The Court has a general jurisdiction to give...

UK GDPR terms explained

Consent Controller Processor Data Subjects Personal Data Personal Data Breach Processing Special Categories of Personal Data Consent   consent of the data subject means any freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous indication of...

Mr H (CAS-33253-W9R0): Complaint regarding discretionary bonuses (28 September 2022)

TPO did not uphold a complaint by Mr H that no discretionary bonuses had been awarded to his section of the scheme since 2015. Under the terms of his section, any bonuses declared by the Trustee were applied to pay increases to pensions....

Punter Southall Governance Services Ltd v Benge & Anor (High Court, 1 February 2022)

The High Court has approved a decision by the trustees of the BST Group Pension Scheme (the “Scheme”) to distribute death benefits in respect of a member to his partner, after objections were raised by the deceased member’s son. In...

Mr T (PO – 38354) (delayed transfer led to loss of investment opportunity)

TPO has upheld a complaint against the James Hay Partnership (“James Hay”), after holding that an avoidable transfer delay, constituting maladministration, led to the member suffering substantial financial loss. Facts In March 2016, Mr...

Decision in Schrems II (Data Protection Commissioner v Facebook Ireland Ltd) (European Court of Justice) – 16 July 2020

Under the GDPR, data may only be transferred to a “third country” (ie outside the EEA) where, broadly, there is a European Commission adequacy decision there are appropriate safeguards in place, such as standard contractual clauses...

Univar UK Limited v Smith and others (High Court, 19 June 2020)

The High Court has granted rectification in respect of the Univar Company Pension Scheme (1978) (“the Scheme”), where an update to the rules of the Scheme had (unintentionally, it was argued) hard-coded RPI. Facts Univar UK Limited...