Pensions Law

Distressed schemes - Raquel Agnello QC, Erskine Chambers. What is the practical significance for trustees of the new Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020? How will it augment the powers of the Pensions Regulator and PPF?

• Date Uploaded: 21 Sept 2021
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GMP equalisation - Richard Hitchcock QC, Outer Temple Chambers. What is the correct approach - legal and practical - to unresolved GMP problems, such as (1) pensions tax implications, (2) gaps in data and (3) revisiting past activity?

• Date Uploaded: 30 Jun 2020
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Unmarried partners - Katherine Apps, 39 Essex Chambers. In light of Parris, Brewster and Langford, when can schemes lawfully treat unmarried partners differently from spouses or civil partners?. How is market practice changing?

• Date Uploaded: 29 Jun 2020
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Trustee duties - Henry Legge QC, 5 Stone Buildings. Is there a shift in the wind over the duties owed by trustees to scheme employers and scheme beneficiaries following the KeyMed litigation?. What should trustees be doing to mitigate risk?

• Date Uploaded: 29 Jun 2020
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Scheme governance - Mark Grant, CMS. What are the latest Pensions Ombudsman's cases revealing about good practice and bad practice in scheme administration and trustee decision-making and the available remedies and defences?

• Date Uploaded: 29 Jun 2020
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Rectification - Ben Hubble QC, 4 New Square. How clear is the 'subjective’ test of common intention in rectification claims, following FSHC Group Holdings Ltd v GLAS Trust Corp Ltd [2019]?

• Date Uploaded: 29 Jun 2020
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Pension Schemes Bill - Raquel Agnello QC, Erskine Chambers. How do you control - and overcome - the risk to clients of the Regulator's beefed up powers: (1) imposing criminal sanctions, (2) extending CNs and (3) requiring a statement of intent?

• Date Uploaded: 29 Jun 2020
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Box Clever - Nicholas Stallworthy QC, Outer Temple Chambers. How has judicial guidance in the Box Clever case changed existing thinking on reasonableness and financial support directions?. Why does it matter and why is it so significant for practice?

• Date Uploaded: 29 Jun 2020
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tPR Powers - Mark Grant, CMS (Pensions Law, London, 14.05.2019) What is the scope and effect of tPR anti-avoidance and supervision powers and how may they change, e.g. s231, s72, notifiable events and moral hazard: (1) information gathering, (2) process and jurisdictional issues and (3) other practicalities?

• Date Uploaded: 17 May 2019
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ESG - Keith Bryant QC, Outer Temple Chambers (Pensions Law, London, 14.05.2019) Where is the room for manoeuvre for trustees when applying ESG to investment and - especially - disinvestment decisions?

• Date Uploaded: 13 May 2019
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