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Articles

Standing in the Chancellor’s Shoes: Equitable Remedies in the Tribunals

To read and download this piece as a pdf, please click here. Commentary by Daniel Petrides Regular readers of this eBriefing will need no persuading of the labyrinthine nature of English tax law, even by the standards of Chancery practice.... Read more

By Daniel Petrides
Thursday 17 March 2022

Articles

Womble Bond Dickinson (Trust Corporation) Ltd (as trustee of the Stephris Trust) v No Named Defendant [2022] EWHC 43 (Ch): Taking action against potentially collusive actions?

To read and download this piece as a pdf, please click here. Commentary by Benjamin Slingo Introduction One way this case differs from most is obvious from its name. There was a claimant, but no defendant. Nevertheless, the court was... Read more

By Benjamin Slingo
Thursday 17 February 2022

Recent Cases

Punter Southall Governance Services Ltd v Benge [2022] EWHC 193 (Ch)

Pensions

Paul Newman KC | Michael Ashdown
Monday 7 February 2022

News

Leading Pensions and Trusts Junior Jennifer Seaman joins Wilberforce

Wilberforce Chambers is delighted to announce that Jennifer Seaman has joined our pensions and trusts teams, with effect from today, Monday 7th February 2022. Jennifer is recommended as a leading junior by both Chambers & Partners and The Legal 500,... Read more

Monday 7 February 2022

Articles

The Correction of Mistakes in Trusts

To read and download this piece as a pdf, please click here. Commentary by Paul Newman QC We all make mistakes; and we are often judged, not by the mistake itself, but by how we respond to it. In my... Read more

By Paul Newman KC
Thursday 3 February 2022

News

New Title: Connected and Associated: Insolvency and Pensions Law

We are delighted to announce that David Pollard‘s new book: Connected and Associated: Insolvency and Pensions Law has just been published by Bloomsbury Professional. It discusses, in detail, the meaning and scope of the ‘connected’, ‘associated’ and ‘control’ tests used... Read more

Thursday 9 December 2021

Publications

Connected and Associated: Insolvency and Pensions Law

David Pollard
December 2021

Webchats

IPs: New notification obligations re pension schemes?

David Pollard and Tom Robinson have recorded an Insolvency and Pensions Technical Bites WebChat discussing Insolvency Practitioners (IPs) and the new notification obligations in relation to occupational pension schemes. Link to slides here.

David Pollard | Thomas Robinson KC
Monday 15 November 2021

Articles

Qualifying interests in possession: Restating the problem

To read and download this piece as a pdf, please click here. Commentary by Jamie Holmes Is it possible to taint an interest in possession, thereby losing its transitional protection under the Finance Act 2006 and triggering adverse inheritance tax... Read more

By Jamie Holmes
Thursday 23 September 2021

Webchats

Crimes, fines and penalties under PSA 2021 – Information to trustees

David Pollard‘s fifth video in a series on “Fines, Crimes and Penalties” under the new Pension Schemes Act 2021. A discussion of the new “financial penalty” (of up to £1m) in relation to providing information to pension scheme trustees (of a... Read more

David Pollard
Thursday 5 August 2021

Articles

Court of Appeal upholds ruling that PPF compensation cap amounts to unlawful age discrimination (Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and Board of the PPF v Hughes)

Wednesday 4 August 2021

Publications

The Edward Nugee Memorial Lectures 2021