Pensions pots - an asset beyond the reach of creditors?

Pensions pots – an asset beyond the reach of creditors?

Thomas Robinson has written an article in which he looks at an important new Court of Appeal case which has struck down the practice of requiring OPS members to draw down their lump sums to make them available to judgment creditors.

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

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