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    Approaches to applying a pension increase underpin (FDR v Dutton)

    Pensions analysis: How should an underpin operate in relation to increases to pensions in payment for an occupational pension scheme? Simon Atkinson,  points out that in the current world of prevailing scheme deficits and struggling employers, the Court of Appeal’s... Read more

    Friday 12 May 2017

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    Approaches to applying a pension increase underpin (FDR v Dutton)

    By Simon Atkinson
    Tuesday 9 May 2017

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    Dubai Breakfast Seminar

    What’s on their mind? Wednesday 17 May 2017  We are delighted to invite you to our latest breakfast seminar involving a series of short presentations on issues concerning parties’ states of mind in commercial disputes. Tom Roscoe, Jonathan Chew and... Read more

    Wednesday 3 May 2017

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    Wilberforce Pensions Lectures – June 2017

    Wilberforce Chambers invites you to a series of lectures by senior practitioners on topics of particular interest to non-contentious pensions lawyers. Wilberforce Chambers has a well-established reputation in the field of pensions law, due in large part to the late... Read more

    Friday 28 April 2017

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    Recent Cases

    Twin Benefits v Barker

    Chancery Division

    Jonathan Seitler KC
    Wednesday 19 April 2017

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    FDR Ltd v Dutton: how pension increase underpins operate

    Date: Wednesday 3 May 2017 (1.0 CPD) Location:  The Law Society, 113 Chancery Lane, London WC2A 1PL (Please make your way to The Reading Room) Time: Registration will begin at 6.00pm, with the seminar starting promptly at 6.30pm.  This will be followed... Read more

    Wednesday 19 April 2017

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    Icebreaker – Seven Individuals v HMRC

    Upper Tribunal (Tax and Chancery Chamber)

    Jonathan Davey KC
    Thursday 13 April 2017

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    Icebreaker – Seven Individuals v HMRC

    Seven Individual Referrers v HMRC [2016] UKUT 0361 (TCC) Jonathan Davey QC has won a major victory for HMRC in a high profile tax case. In the appeal of the “member level” issues in the long running Icebreaker litigation the Upper Tribunal... Read more

    Wednesday 12 April 2017

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    Clutterbuck v Cleghorn

    The Court of Appeal (Civil Division)

    Jonathan Seitler KC | Emer Murphy
    Thursday 6 April 2017

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    FDR Ltd v Dutton

    The Court of Appeal has handed down judgment in the case of FDR Ltd v Dutton & ors [2017] EWCA Civ 200.  This case concerned how an underpin should operate in relation to increases to pensions in payment for an occupational pension... Read more

    Monday 3 April 2017

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    Dutton v FDR Ltd

    High Court of Justice

    Paul Newman KC | Simon Atkinson
    Monday 3 April 2017

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    Clutterbuck v Cleghorn

    This was an appeal against the striking out of the Claimants’ claim as an abuse of process.  In 2010, the Claimants brought a claim against Sarah Al Amoudi, relying on various causes of action relating to alleged high-value property joint... Read more

    Friday 31 March 2017

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