Jonathan Evans

Pensions CV

• Regularly advises the Board of the Pension Protection Fund in connection with issues relating to the Pension Protection Fund, the Financial Assistance Scheme and the Fraud Compensation Scheme.
  
  
• Advised Canadian parent companies in the Nortel litigation.
  
  
• Acted for subsidiaries of Lehman group in relation to action by the Pensions Regulator.
  
  
• Advised in dispute concerning scheme funding referred to the Pensions Regulator for determination (2009-10).
  
   
• Acted as expert witness of English Law in US Chapter 11 proceedings relating to Financial Support Directions in the Sea Containers litigation.
  
  
• Acted for Secretary of State in continuation of the BT Crown Guarantee case (ongoing).
  
  
• Capital ATL Pension Trustees v Gellately [2011] EWHC 485 (Ch) (validity of equalisation amendments).
  
  
• PNPF Trust Company v Taylor & Ors [2010] EWHC 1573 (Ch) (scope of amendment powers, definition of employer for statutory funding obligations, definition of employment cessation events), appeal pending.
  
  
• TfL v Board of the Pension Protection Fund (2009, ongoing) (application for judicial review of levy determination).
  
  
• Colorcon v Huckell [2009] EWHC 979 (Ch) (application for summary judgment in rectification action).
  
  
• Sovereign Trustees v Glover [2007] EWHC 1750 (Ch) (validity of scheme amendment)
  
  
• Alexander Forbes Trustees v Clarke [2008] EWHC 153 (Ch) (application of statutory priority order in section 73 Pensions Act 1995).
  
  
• Gleave v PPF [2008] EWHC 1099 (Ch) (valuation of a claim under section 75 PA 95 in a Company Vonluntary Arrangement).
  
  
• Sampson v Hodgson [2008] EWHC Ch (Pensions Ombudsman appeal re ill-health pension and IDRP procedure).
  
  
• GEC 1972 Plan ("telent") 7 November 2007 (hearing before the Determinations Panel of the Pensions Regulator in relation to the appointment of independent trustees).
  
  
• Spreadborough v Pensions Ombudsman [2004] 34 PBLR (Ill-health benefits).