Police federation speech – Speech by Theresa May
“The Home Secretary delivered this speech at the Police Federation Conference 2011 on 18 May, 2011.”
Home Office, 17th May 2011
Source: www.homeoffice.gov.uk
Category: pensions
Pension rights for gay couples in civil partnerships should match those for married straight couples, EU court rules – OUT-LAW.com
“Couples in civil partnerships should have the same pension rights as married couples according to the European Court of Justice, backing the approach already taken in the UK.”
OUT-LAW.com, 11th May 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
Public sector workers launch legal challenge to pension reforms – Daily Telegraph
“Public sector workers have launched a legal challenge in the High Count to prevent changes to their gold-plated pensions.”
Daily Telegraph, 16th April 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Owens v Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council – WLR Daily
Owens v Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council [2011] EWCA Civ 359; [2011] WLR (D) 120
“Where the pension entitlement of an employee seeking a teachers’ pension was being determined and the term ‘teacher’ had not been defined by the legislature the word was to be construed in accordance with its natural meaning.”
WLR Daily, 31st March 2011
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Patmalniece v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (AIRE Centre intervening) – WLR Daily
“The conditions for entitlement to state pension credit, which included a requirement that a claimant had a right to reside in the United Kingdom or the Republic of Ireland, constituted indirect discrimination against nationals of other European Union member states which was, however, justified by the legitimate aim of protecting the resources of the United Kingdom against benefit or social tourism by those who were not economically or socially integrated with the country.”
WLR Daily, 16th March 2011
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Casteels v British Airways plc – WLR Daily
“Article 48FEU of the FEU Treaty, concerning the adoption of measures in the field of social security, could not be relied on by an individual against his private sector employer in a dispute before a national court. In the context of the mandatory application of a collective labour agreement, article 45FEU of the FEU Treaty precluded the non-inclusion of years of service completed by a worker for the same employer in different member states in the calculation of the period for the acquisition of definitive entitlements to supplementary pension benefits.”
WLR Daily, 11th March 2011
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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Association belge des Consommateurs Test-Achats ASBL and others v Conseil des ministres – WLR Daily
“Article 5(2) of Council Directive 2004/113/EC was invalid with effect from 21 December 2012 since it permitted European Union law and consequently member states’ laws, to derogate from the principle of equal treatment of men and women, guaranteed by articles 21 and 23 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, without temporal limitation.”
WLR Daily, 2nd March 2011
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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Men and women will pay the same for insurance from 2012 – OUT-LAW.com
“Insurance and pensions companies must be stopped from offering different prices and premiums to men and women from December 2012, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled.”
OUT-LAW.com, 1st March 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
Male pensioners could lose out in EU sex discrimination ruling – Daily Telegraph
“Male pensioners could lose around £340 a year if the European court backs gender equality rules for insurance companies this week, experts are predicting.”
Daily Telegraph, 27th February 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Prudential taken to court by its own pension fund trustees – The Guardian
“Prudential, one of the country’s leading pension suppliers, has been taken to the high court by the trustees of its own employees’ retirement fund. The move by Prudential Staff Pensions could potentially force the financial services firm into topping up the scheme and comes after the Pru changed its practices in 2005 to plug a £379m deficit in the 92-year-old pension plan.”
The Guardian, 16th February 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Terrifying’ flaw uncovered in pension protection law – Daily Telegraph
“The Government has been urged to change the law to ensure pensions of all workers are protected if their employer goes bust.”
Daily Telegraph, 31st January 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
New pension rules hit workers – Daily Telegraph
“Workers will be automatically enrolled in a pension scheme under rules outline in the Pension Bill published today.”
Daily Telegraph, 13th January 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
HR Trustees Ltd v German and another; In re IMG Pension Plan – WLR Daily
“Section 91 of the Pensions Act 1995 as amended prevented neither the parties from making nor the court from approving or enforcing a bona fide compromise of any disputed or doubted right and entitlement of members of the scheme under an occupational pension scheme.”
WLR Daily, 2nd December 2010
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Government rethinks TUPE stance – Law Society’s Gazette
“The coalition government has scrapped plans to reform controversial employment regulations in an apparent U-turn by the Conservatives, it has emerged.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 18th November 2010
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
Laws v Metropolitan Police Authority and another – WLR Daily
Laws v Metropolitan Police Authority and another [2010] EWCA Civ 1099; [2010] WLR (D) 254
“By reg 37(1) of the Police (Injury Benefit) Regulations 2006, on a review of an injury pension payable under those regulations, the only duty of the police authority was to consider whether, since any previous review, the degree of pension disablement had substantially altered, and it was not open to the authority to reduce or increase a pension on such a review by virtue of a conclusion that the clinical basis of an earlier assessment had been wrong.”
WLR Daily, 14th October 2010
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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ITN faces court challenge over pensions – The Guardian
“ITN is facing a high court legal challenge over plans to dramatically reduce pension payments made to the families of former employees.”
The Guardian, 21st July 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
BT pension fund seeks legal ruling on taxpayers’ obligation to underwrite deficit – The Guardian
“How much of BT’s huge pension liabilities are underwritten by the taxpayer? Nearly 26 years after one of Margaret Thatcher’s biggest privatisations, the telecoms firm’s pensioners are finally close to getting an answer.”
The Guardian, 13th July 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Timbrell v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions – WLR Daily
Timbrell v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2010] EWCA Civ 701; [2010] WLR (D) 155
The Gender Recognition Act 2004 did not have retrospective effect, and since the United Kingdom had failed to implement the relevant Community law Directive within the time permitted so far as concerned acquired gender and rights to pensions, an individual could invoke the Directive as its provisions were unconditional and precise.”
WLR Daily, 23rd June 2010
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Woman who had sex change wins legal right to pension at 60 – The Guardian
“A woman who had a sex-change operation 10 years ago has won her battle to receive a pension from the age of 60. Christine Timbrell was born Christopher Timbrell in 1941, but had surgery to change her gender in 2000.”
The Guardian, 22nd June 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Regina (Public and Commercial Services Union) v Minister for the Civil Service – WLR Daily
“S 2(3) of the Superannuation Act 1972 as amended conferred protection in relation to all entitlements in the principal civil service pension scheme (‘PCSPS’) and the civil service compensation scheme (‘CSCS’) referable to length of service and contributions paid, whether they constituted legal entitlements in the full sense or entitlements as a matter of established and declared administrative practice as set out in any relevant scheme under s 1 of the 1972 Act.”
WLR Daily, 10th May 2010
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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