Zara Yusuf, of Three Stone Chambers, considers the recent Ombudsman determinations on the scope of the trustees’ responsibility for statutory transfers of pension benefits, and asks whether the approach adopted is overly restrictive. To read the article, click on the pdf below.

According to the latest list of proposed amendments to be moved at the House of Lords Committee stage of the Pension Schemes Bill, Baroness Bowles has tabled an amendment to clause 100 of the Bill, which concerns the remedial provisions intended to deal with the Virgin Media decision. The amendment seeks to remove subsections (9) and (10), which exclude from the scope of the remedy amendments which are the subject of existing legal proceedings.   The Committee begins its rev

Paul Newman KC looks at the recent High Court approval of a compromise in the long-running saga involving the Places for People Group Retirement Benefit Scheme, which contains a useful explanation of the approach to be taken by the Court in approving the settlement of a complex set of pensions issues.