Perplexed by property law? Relax, Solicitor Claire Haynes is here to answer your most pressing questions… Q: I am a developer. I am investigating the purchase of a site for… Read more →
Many Sponsoring Employers and Trustees continue to look at ways of controlling defined benefit pension scheme liabilities to reduce cost, to reduce volatility and to manage risks. For regulatory reasons… Read more →
Pensions Ready Reckoner Clive Weber is a Partner in our Pensions & Employee Benefits Team. Please contact Clive with any queries on this Ready Reckoner. PARLIAMENT Topic Bills… Read more →
The High Court has ruled that Barclays’ pensions proposals will not hold up its ring-fencing plans, in a decision that considered widely relevant issues of restructuring defined benefit pension schemes… Read more →
In my last Pensions Compass article (17 January 2018) I wrote about the pensions issues surrounding a hostile bid made by Melrose, a turnaround company, in respect of the proposed… Read more →
Background Employers have faced the prospect of having to pay their statutory debt under section 75 of the Pensions Act 1995 when their last active member of a defined benefit… Read more →
New rules come into force on 6 April 2018 that will affect how termination payments are taxed and whether an employee can benefit from the £30,000 tax exemption. The overall… Read more →
The government has announced the new rates and limits which will be introduced from April 2018 in relation to the National Living Wage, National Minimum Wage and employment compensation limits.… Read more →
Constructive guidance from the Court of Appeal in a disability case Employers are often faced with the difficulty of trying to understand what can be very mixed messages given by… Read more →