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The Pensions Ombudsman has published its first determination of a case relating to “pension liberation” or “pension scams”. The case concerns an individual who was persuaded to transfer out of their employer’s pension scheme and...
The Supreme Court handed down its judgment in the joined cases of Futter v Futter and Pitt v Holt on 9 May 2013. These cases are important for the development of trusts law, including pensions. Background The facts of both cases...
This case gives the pensions industry long awaited guidance on the commercial application of the ECJ’s decisions in Beckmann and Martin regarding the transfer of early retirement benefits under the Transfer of Undertakings...
The Court of Appeal has confirmed that section 91 of the Pensions Act 1995 does not prohibit the compromise of a genuine dispute as to whether pension rights in a scheme exist. Background In November 2009, the High Court ruled that a...
The Trustee of the Ilford Pension Scheme (the Scheme) asked the High Court whether it was permissible to buy annuities for certain members of the Scheme before the Scheme entered the PPF. But the High Court concluded that the Scheme was...
This highly anticipated decision of the Court of Appeal (the latest in a long line of equalisation cases), was handed down on 8 July 2009. The judgment has been hailed as a good result for schemes as it provides a sensible solution...
This was an appeal to the Court of Appeal which involved a case where a pension scheme booklet contained different (and incorrect) information about a member’s normal retirement date from the provisions of the scheme’s rules....
Prior to the Barber judgment, it was permissible and normal practice for UK occupational pension schemes to have unequal retirement ages between male and female members, usually at 65 for men and 60 for women. This reflected state...
