Clive Weber

Clive advises the Pensions team on all aspects of UK pensions law, drawing on over 45 years’ experience as a pensions’ lawyer. His expertise includes pension issues for employers, trustees and members, including restructuring of schemes, contingent asset arrangements (including for Pension Protection Fund (PPF) purposes), dealing with the Pensions Regulator and Pension Protection Fund and with member complaints at scheme and Pensions Ombudsman levels, as well as pension aspects of corporate transactions. His expertise also extends to pension death benefits and inter-generational wealth transfers.

• Advising (together with leading counsel) on trustees’ powers to switch from the Retail Prices Index (RPI) to the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) for pension increases.
• Advising on a charge over an employer’s property to reduce the Pension Protection Fund (PFP) levy and to underpin the scheme’s deficit recovery plan.
• Advising an employer in the charity sector regarding rights and obligations under its pension scheme.
• Advising in relation to pension scheme death benefits and the proposed extension of Inheritance Tax to certain pension savings and death benefits.
• Consideration of the Pension Ombudsman’s jurisdiction
• Advising on time limits in pension cases
• Advising on legal issues relating to pension dashboards

• Clive is one of the three joint editors of “Law of Pension Schemes”.
• He is on the editorial board of Lexis’s online pension service, which is widely used by the pensions industry.
• He is the editor of Wedlake Bell’s “Pensions Compass” magazine, published approximately three monthly, which features articles on key pension topics and developments in parliament, the courts and elsewhere.

Clive is a member of the Association of Pension Lawyers’ Legislative and Parliamentary Committee. The committee liaises with the government (for example, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and HMRC) on pension legislation, meets with pension authorities (for example, the Pensions Regulator) as necessary, comments on proposed new legislation and considers pension case law developments.