APL Conference 2024

Thursday 21st November 2024
Hotel Le Plaza, Brussels

Paul Newman KC, David Pollard, and Sebastian Allen are speaking at the APL Conference 2024. They are speaking on the following topics:

Paul is speaking on ‘‘It all happened so long ago’: problems of proof and evidence in pensions law’.
Sebastian is speaking on the Virgin Media case.
David is speaking on ‘Dealing with surplus – and looking at discretions‘, with Dawn Heath and Lauren Jackson (Freshfields).

Other talks will discuss topics such as:

Transforming TPO – our new approach
The case for CDC and practical learnings from Royal Mail
Pensions Increases – The Law of Diminishing Returns and/or Unintended Consequences?
ADR – what pension lawyers need to know?
Sectionalisation revisited
The Lifetime Allowance: Gone but not forgotten
Should trustees ever agree to scheme wind up?

The conference is taking place from Wednesday 20^th November to Friday 22^nd November in Brussels. Click the button below to register for the event.

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