The High Court has today approved a compromise of the remainder of the Avon Cosmetics litigation not dealt with in the recent judgment....

On Friday the Court of Appeal handed down judgment on an issue concerning the scope of the deficit repair rule of the Railways Pension...

A working group commissioned by the Financial Markets Law Committee has published a report intended to assist pension trustees in making...

DWP has today published its response to the consultation on the Occupational Pension Schemes (Funding and Investment Strategy and...

The Pensions regulator (tPR) has had a busy couple of weeks. After laying the general code of practice before Parliament on 10 January,...

Judgment was handed down this morning in Newell Trustees Ltd v Newell Rubbermaid UK Services Ltd [2024] EWHC 48 (Ch), in which Michael...

The High Court this morning handed down an important judgment clarifying the conditions for saving partially-invalid amendments: Avon...

tPR has today published a new General Code of Practice, which seeks to combine and update 10 existing codes of practice relating mainly...

On 20 December 2023, HMRC published a new lifetime allowance guidance newsletter, updated yesterday. Pensions Barrister hopes to publish...

The Pensions Ombudsman (PO) has issued a factsheet explaining the effect of the Court of Appeal’s decision in CMG Pension Trustees v CGI...

June appears to be pensions month in the Court of Appeal! The appeal in the BBC case is now listed for 25 June. See the casetracker for...

Pension Barrister has heard that the appeal to the Court of Appeal in Virgin Media has been fixed to begin on either 25 or 26 June 2024...

In accordance with industry speculation, the Chancellor has made a number of announcements in relation to pensions in today's Autumn...

To mark the centenary of the PLSA (formerly the NAPF), "PLSA at 100: the past, present and future" has been published. Produced with the...

Judgment of the CA was handed down today in Pensions Ombudsman v CMG Pension Trustees Ltd. CA confirmed that the requirement in s.91(6)...

In Mr W (CAS-93568-H0D0) the Ombudsman has given his 1st determination on the Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Conditions for...

On 28 September, tPR issued its first climate change reporting fine. tPR fined the ExxonMobil Pension Plan £5,000 for failing to meet new...

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 FTT has rejected another appeal by a scheme administrator against the rejection of relief at source on in specie contributions into a...

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