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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...
The Supreme Court has held that Morrisons was not vicariously liable for the acts of one of its employees who, pursuing a personal vendetta, illicitly copied employee data given to him in his role as an auditor and published it online....
TPO has rejected an appeal against an adjudicator’s decision, finding that a provider’s enhanced due diligence checks to verify an overseas member’s identity were not excessive or onerous. Background Money laundering offences were...
The High Court has dismissed a case against directors who were trustees of a pension scheme where the company had claimed they had breached their fiduciary duties, maximising their own pension benefits to the company’s detriment. Facts...
The Court of Appeal (“CA”) has held that the transitional provisions which were put in place as part of reforms to both the Judicial and Firefighters’ Pension Schemes constitute unlawful direct age discrimination. Background McCloud...
On 12 July 2017, the Supreme Court handed down its judgment in the case of Walker v Innospec Limited. In a landmark ruling, it overturned the Court of Appeal’s 2015 judgment, and unanimously agreed that Mr Walker’s husband should be...
The judge found that the cut-off date, for limitation purposes, for the recovery of overpayments should be the date on which TPO received the scheme’s “Reply” to Mr Webber’s complaint. Background The Limitation Act 1980 provides...
