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A round up of pensions developments

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • December 3 2012

The employer's duty of good faith has come under the spotlight recently in a number of pensions cases. T

A round up of pensions developments

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • September 3 2012

The Regulator has recently published updated step-by-step guidance on the auto-enrolment regime following recent regulations and DWP guidance

A round-up of pensions developments: April 2012

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • May 4 2012

The Pensions Regulator has published a statement setting out the procedure for employers to follow to bring forward their auto-enrolment staging dates

Desmonds & Sons: Upper Tribunal turns down attempts to impose a contribution notice on an additional party but holds it has power to increase the amounts under contribution notices already imposed

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • April 26 2012

The Upper Tribunal has issued its interim decision in an appeal from a decision by the Determinations Panel of the Pensions Regulator to impose a contribution notice (CN) on two director shareholders requiring them to pay a total of £1m into the company's defined benefit pension scheme

A round-up of pensions developments: December 2011

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • January 3 2012

HMRC has published the fifth edition of its Countdown Bulletin, which deals with practical issues for pension schemes as a result of the abolition of protected rights from 6 April 2012

A round-up of pensions developments: November 2011

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • December 1 2011

On 3 November 2011, the Pensions Bill received Royal Assent and became the Pensions Act 2011

A round-up of pensions developments: October 2011

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • November 1 2011

In our previous e-bulletins, we reported on the requirement for trustees to identify the statutory employers in the Scheme Return from November 2011

Pensions Bill 2011 - Government amendments to the definition of "money purchase benefits"

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • October 20 2011

Following the Supreme Court's judgment in Houldsworth and another v Bridge Trustees Limited and another, the Government has laid amendments to the Pensions Bill 2011 to amend the definition of "money purchase benefits" under pensions legislation

ECJ upholds legitimate justification for mandatory retirement age

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • European Union, United Kingdom
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  • October 3 2011

Discrimination is normally only allowed under European law where the discriminatory measure can be objectively justified; this means showing that the measure is an 'appropriate and necessary' way of achieving a legitimate aim

BT Pension Scheme Trustees Limited v British Telecommunications Plc, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • October 3 2011

The High Court has held that a party to proceedings being dealt with in stages could not withdraw a concession that it had made at an earlier hearing