Rosalind Connor

Data and Safe Harbor: the implications for pension schemes

European Union - December 17 2015 One of the highest profile legal cases in recent months is the decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union ("CJEU") relating to the "safe…

Vinod Bange.

Walker v Innospec: Should same sex couples get the same benefits as heterosexual couples?

United Kingdom - December 17 2015 Under the provisions of the Civil Partnership Act 2004, civil partners must be treated the same as spouses in any employment situation. There is an…

VAT: HMRC extends transitional period

European Union - December 17 2015 Our earlier articles (VAT on pension schemes: possible further developments, A new decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union) relating…

Regulator report suggests concerns with some lay trustees

United Kingdom - December 17 2015 In October the Pensions Regulator published its Trustee Landscape Quantitative Research. Much of the detail will be familiar to trustees and their…

Court of Appeal rules that same sex civil partners are not entitled to the same occupational pension scheme benefits as opposite sex spouses

United Kingdom - October 21 2015 A Court of Appeal judgment in Walker v Innospec & ors [2015] EWCA Civ 1000 just delivered earlier this month means that occupational pension schemes…