
BBC News
At an oral hearing on Friday 15th September, Adam Johnson J granted BBC permission to appeal to the Court of Appeal from his decision in...

The Remuneration of Pension Trustees
Robert Ham KC has written an article about two current issues regarding trustee remuneration, namely the 2022 decision of the Court of...

Talking Pensions Ep9
In the ninth episode of Talking Pensions (recorded in January 2023), Paul talks to Anthony Raymond, General Counsel of the Pensions...

Third time lucky: ChD reconsiders failed unopposed rectification claim
A claimant has succeeded in obtaining rectification of a deed of appointment supplemental to a Will - but only on appeal to the Judge...

No quantum of solace for in specie contributions
The FTT has rejected another appeal by a scheme administrator against the rejection of relief at source on in specie contributions into a...

McGaughey v USS Ltd
Edward Sawyer has written a casenote on this decision, which considers derivative actions against directors of a corporate pension...

Biting the hand that no longer feeds: the Brass Trustees case
In this casenote, Paul Newman KC considers the recent case of Brass Trustees v Goldstone [2023] EWHC 1978 (Ch), in which the Court...

A short story of Dalriada's pursuit of liberators
Confused about all the cases with "Dalriada" in the title? Can't remember where the law has got to with reciprocation schemes? We are...

The BBC case & fetters on amendment powers
Joseph Steadman has written a casenote on the recent BBC case, where the Court considered the fetters on a scheme's amendment power in...

Distribution of surplus: a Scottish perspective
Paul Newman KC analyses a decision of the Court of Session on the application of surplus on the winding-up of a DB scheme. Using...

Shah v Pensions Regulator: UT confirms Contribution Notice
On Friday 28 July, the Upper Tribunal (Tax and Chancery Chamber) published its decision in Shah v The Pensions Regulator [2023] UKUT...