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Articles

Forfeiture and “6 year, no claim” provisions: Part 1

In the first part of this two-part article, Thomas Seymour and Hugh Gittins of Slaughter & May consider section 92 of the Pensions Act 1995 in the light of recent caselaw. This article first appeared on PensionsBarrister.com Click here to... Read more

Tuesday 17 January 2023

News

Paul Newman KC launches PensionsBarrister.com

Wilberforce Chambers is delighted to announce that Paul Newman KC, one of our leading pensions silks, today launches his new website: www.pensionsbarrister.com. Acting as an up-to-date pensions legal resource, the site will feature articles from barristers on a wide range of pensions... Read more

Thursday 12 January 2023

Recent Cases

First-tier Tribunal Decision concerning the meaning of “the amount payable on the transfer” in relation to disposal of gilt strips

Tax

Jonathan Davey KC
Wednesday 21 December 2022

Articles

Not just another article about BTI v Sequana

This article was first published in ThoughtLeaders4 FIRE Magazine Issue 11. Click here to view the full article

By Daniel Lewis
Monday 5 December 2022

News

Paul Newman KC awarded the Wallace Medal

Wilberforce Chambers is delighted to congratulate Paul Newman KC for winning the Wallace Medal, presented at the Association of Pension Lawyers annual conference last night, for his title released earlier this year, ‘A Practitioner’s Guide to Correcting Mistakes in Pension Schemes’. For... Read more

Friday 11 November 2022

Articles

Pension Trustee Companies: An Update after Lehtimäki [2020] UKSC 33

This article was published in Trust Law International, Vol. 36, No. 2, 2022 Click here to view the full article

By Robert Ham KC | David Pollard
Friday 21 October 2022

Articles

Consideration v Causation in the context of S142 of the Inheritance Tax Act 1984

To read and download this piece as a pdf, please click here. Commentary by Jamie Holmes. There are a number of circumstances in which it will be advantageous to a taxpayer that some part of a tax planning arrangement is other... Read more

By Jamie Holmes
Thursday 22 September 2022

Webchats

Does TUPE automatically transfer pension benefit obligations?

David Pollard discusses in a Pensions Technical Bite whether private sector pension schemes are excluded from transfer under TUPE. Pointing to both (a) the wording of TUPE (referring to only employer obligations) and (b) the KIrtruna case in the European Court,... Read more

David Pollard
Tuesday 23 August 2022

News

HNW Guide 2022: Wilberforce are “top of their game”

Wilberforce has had another incredible year in Chambers & Partners’ HNW Guide with 21 barrister rankings across three Bar practice areas, including a tier one set ranking in the Chancery: Traditional and a two tier set ranking in Tax: Private... Read more

Friday 15 July 2022

Articles

An introduction to ‘A Practitioner’s Guide to Correcting Mistakes in Pension Schemes’

Paul Newman KC introduces his new book, A Practitioner’s Guide to Correcting Mistakes in Pension Schemes in Pensions Today’s July/August 2022 edition. Click here to view the full article

By Paul Newman KC
Wednesday 6 July 2022

Publications

The Edward Nugee Memorial Lectures 2022

News

Wilberforce shortlisted for Set of the Year at the High Net Worth Awards 2022

We are delighted to announce that Wilberforce Chambers has been shortlisted at the High Net Worth Awards 2022 for Set of the Year. Chambers and Partners’ criteria for this nomination reads as follows; “The rankings and the shortlist are the result... Read more

Wednesday 18 May 2022