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Wilberforce Chambers is delighted to congratulate Paul Newman KC for winning the Wallace Medal, presented at the Association of Pension Lawyers annual conference last Thursday, for his website pensionsbarrister.com The medal is awarded by the Main Committee of the Association for... Read more
Monday 24 November 2025
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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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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
Publications
Tom Roscoe | Jonathan Chew | Stephen Brown | Bobby Friedman KC | Simon Atkinson | Jessica Brooke | Tara Taylor | John Grocott-Barrett | Ernest Leung
October 2025
Publications
Daniel Lewis | Daniel Jukes
October 2025
Articles
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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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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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
Articles
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
Recent Cases
Pensions
Thomas Robinson KC | Jennifer Seaman
Thursday 21 August 2025
Articles
David Pollard and Sebastian Allen gave a seminar to the Association of Pension Lawyers (APL) in June 2025 on: Pensions crimes and fines: Where a company is liable, what is the secondary person extension to third parties: “a director, manager,... Read more
By David Pollard | Sebastian Allen
Wednesday 20 August 2025
Recent Cases
Trusts, probate and estates: non-contentious
Jonathan Davey KC | Elizabeth Houghton
Tuesday 12 August 2025