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11 September
Many employers are starting to establish excepted life assurance arrangements which fall outside of the UK tax regime for pensions saving. Benefits under excepted schemes do not count towards the... Read Morearticles
11 September
The High Court when it heard the dispute in April 2014 held that IBM acted in breach of its duty of good faith to the members when it closed two... Read Morearticles
11 September
Throughout 2016 and so far in 2017, defined benefit pension schemes have made headline news for all the wrong reasons. Firstly, BHS and its massive pension deficit shone a spot... Read Morearticles
11 September
The requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation become enforceable on 25 May 2018 – less than 9 months from now – and there is a lot of work for... Read Morearticles
11 September
Do the rules of your pension scheme ensure that the Trustees have to seek your consent before making changes to the rules? Unfortunately for British Airways (BA), their rules did... Read Morearticles
11 September
In the recent case of Walker v Innospec Limited [2017], the Supreme Court ruled that a pension scheme must provide benefits for a surviving spouse in a same-sex marriage on... Read Morearticles
18 August
Following what the Guardian recently branded the 'ground rent scandal' where owners of leasehold houses, in particular, were highlighted as facing spiralling ground rents, the Government has set out plans... Read Morearticles
17 August
On 25 May 2018, the GDPR will become directly applicable in all EU member states and, despite Brexit negotiations, the UK Government has confirmed that it will be implementing these... Read Morearticles
17 August
In certain circumstances, a party's signature to a deed must be attested by a witness. For example, if the executing party is an individual or if a company executed the... Read Morearticles
17 August
On 27 June the FCA published its Policy Statement PS17/13 'Investment and corporate banking: prohibition of restrictive contractual clauses'. This details the FCA's decision to ban firms from entering into... Read Morearticles
17 August
This note provides an overview of how the duty of responsibility will apply to Consumer Credit Firms in 2018 and why preparation for the Senior Managers' Regime and duty of... Read More