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PensionsThursday 18 April 2024

Pension crimes, fines and insolvency practitioners

David Pollard has written an article about the relevance of the recent Supreme Court decision in R (Palmer) – in which it was held that an administrator was not in the class of persons liable to prosecution under the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 for alleged failure to give notice to the SoS of proposed collective redundancies – to crimes and fines under pensions legislation.

The article was first posted on Paul Newman KC‘s website pensionsbarrister.com.

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