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Pensions Barrister is in Brussels!
There is no article this week as Paul is in Brussels at the APL Annual Conference, where he is speaking on Problems of Evidence and Proof...

Paul Newman KC
Nov 20, 20241 min read


CA stops OPS assets being used for judgment debt
The Court of Appeal today handed down judgment in Manolete Partners plc v White [2024] EWCA Civ 1418, overturning the first instance...

Paul Newman KC
Nov 15, 20241 min read


Supreme Court breathes new life into "equitable rectification"
In National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers v Tyne and Wear Passenger Transport Executive T/A Nexus [2024] UKSC 37, the...

Paul Newman KC
Nov 14, 20241 min read


Talking Pensions Ep20: Dame Jane Newell
In the latest episode (recorded in June 2024), Paul talks to Dame Jane Newell, former Chair of the Maxwell Pensioners Trust and former...

Paul Newman KC
Nov 14, 20241 min read


Rectify your formal defects away!
Paul Newman KC considers a case in which pension scheme amendments were rectified to overcome the failure of a trustee to sign the...

Paul Newman KC
Nov 7, 20241 min read


Mistaken payments and fixed protection
Paul Newman KC looks at Lefort v HMRC , in which the FTT has controversially refused to follow an earlier FTT decision on whether a...

Paul Newman KC
Oct 31, 20241 min read


Autumn Budget 2024: Government introduces IHT on unspent pension pots
One of the announcements in the Chancellor's Budget today is the introduction of IHT on pensions. The Chancellor has announced that the...

Paul Newman KC
Oct 30, 20241 min read


Court makes third-party debt order against pension rights
In Seg Bell v Ratna Singh [2024] EWHC 2725 (KB), Master Davidson, sitting in the London Circuit Commercial Court, made third-party debt...

Paul Newman KC
Oct 29, 20241 min read


Back Britain - but at what cost?
Ram Lakshman considers whether the Chancellor’s proposals to encourage (or mandate) British pension schemes to invest in British...

Paul Newman KC
Oct 24, 20241 min read


FTT revisits approach to mistaken payments
In Lefort v HMRC [2024] UKFTT 00926 (TCC), the FTT dismissed an appeal against HMRC’s decision to revoke a SIPP member’s fixed...

Paul Newman KC
Oct 23, 20241 min read
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