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    The Thorny Issue of Pension Liberation

    Allison Wu looks at Brambles Administration Ltd v Harvey, an appeal from a Pensions Ombudsman determination involving pension liberation which considers the time limits for bringing complaints, the test for dishonesty and contributory negligence. The article was first posted on Paul... Read more

    By Allison Wu
    Friday 11 December 2026

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    Lost in Translation – Enforcing English Worldwide Freezing Orders in Switzerland

    Article by Roxane Reiser, 1st December 2025 To read or download this article  as a PDF, please click here. It is a familiar theme. You act for the Good Guys who seek to recover sums owed to them in proceedings in... Read more

    By Roxane Reiser
    Tuesday 2 December 2025

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    Recent Cases

    “Interests means interests?”: Fetters on pension scheme amendment powers after 3i plc v Decesare

    Pensions

    Brian Green KC | Michael Tennet KC | Fenner Moeran KC | Joseph Steadman
    Tuesday 25 November 2025

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    Part 26A Restructuring Plan case concerning Fossil Group features in Global Restructuring Review

    Insolvency

    Daniel Jukes
    Monday 10 November 2025

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    “You’re acting like a child…”

    Claims by adult children under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975 Article by Naomi Kilcoyne, 3 November 2025 To read or download this article  as a PDF, please click here. This article considers the recent case of... Read more

    By Naomi Kilcoyne
    Monday 3 November 2025

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    Pension transfer claims: the saga continues

    Edward Sawyer considers a recent determination of the Deputy Pensions Ombudsman on a pension transfer claim, deciding that scheme trustees owed no general duty to undertake due diligence on behalf of the transferring member, and declining to follow the High... Read more

    By Edward Sawyer
    Thursday 30 October 2025

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    Bursting the Bubble

    Naomi Kilcoyne has written an article on KO UK Pension Trustees v Barker, in which the High Court recently authorised the unlocking of surplus assets in the Coca-Cola pension scheme. The article was first posted on Paul Newman KC‘s website pensionsbarrister.com Read... Read more

    By Naomi Kilcoyne
    Tuesday 28 October 2025

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    Case Analysis – Waller-Edwards v One Savings Plc

    Daniel Jukes has written a case analysis for the Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law on Waller-Edwards v One Savings Bank Plc. In this important judgment, the Supreme Court has extended the requirements for the Etridge (No 2)... Read more

    By Daniel Jukes
    Friday 17 October 2025

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    Leaving a trust in limbo: Can a sole trustee resign?

    Article by Simon Atkinson, 30th September 2025 To read or download this article  as a PDF, please click here. Under the old law of uses, out of which the law of trusts grew, a use would fail for want of... Read more

    By Simon Atkinson
    Tuesday 30 September 2025

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    Ombudsman sets out position on pension transfer claims

    Edward Sawyer has written an article which considers a recent determination on the British Steel Pension Scheme, in which the PO set out his general approach to claims by victims of pension transfer scams for due diligence failures by the... Read more

    By Edward Sawyer
    Wednesday 24 September 2025

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    Asymmetric Jurisdiction Clauses and EU Exceptionalism – Società Italiana Lastre v Agora

    Andreas Giannakopoulos has written a case comment for the Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly on Società Italiana Lastre SpA v Agora Sàrl (Case C-537/23), the first decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union to consider the validity... Read more

    By Andreas Giannakopoulos
    Monday 8 September 2025

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    Dawson-Damer v Grampian Trust Company: Another challenge to trustee distribution decision in a family trust

    In Dawson-Damer v Grampian Trust Company the Privy Council reviews the law on settlor intentions and rejects a claim to set aside a trustee decision based on a Pitt v Holt/Hastings-Bass inadequate deliberation challenge.

    By David Pollard
    Monday 1 September 2025

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