‘Research has shown widespread disaffection among the judiciary with working conditions, including findings that almost half of High Court judges would quit the bench early if possible.’
Litigation Futures, 10th February 2017
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
‘Magistrates should not be forced to retire at 70 if keeping them on would solve the recruitment crisis, a committee of MPs have said.’
Daily Telegraph, 19th October 2016
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A senior officer involved in a Met operation in which a man was shot dead by police is being allowed to retire, despite being under investigation.’
BBC News, 4th October 2016
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The only branch of governance in which the public still has some faith is the judiciary – and it is facing a serious recruitment crisis.’
The Guardian, 4th April 2016
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘In a consultation opening today we look at what can be done to protect owners of retirement flats and their families from unexpected charges hidden in leases.’
Law Commission, 29th October 2015
Source: www.lawcom.gov.uk
‘FOCUS: Very few of us are ever going to have enough money in retirement to do everything we might want to do, so we need to think outside the current pensions ‘box’ if we are going to have anywhere near enough.’
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OUT-LAW.com, 22nd September 2015
Source: www.out-law.com
‘The recent Judgment of Mr. Justice Henderson in Flanagan v Liontrust Investment Partners LLP and others [2015] EWHC 2171, 24th July 2015, has addressed the vexed question of whether the Common Law doctrine of repudiatory breach applies to LLP members’ agreements. It has long been settled law that the doctrine did not apply to traditional partnerships, Hurst v Bryk [2002] 1 AC 185 (HL), but the position under LLP agreements has been the subject of continuing debate. In particular it has been argued, by the author amongst others, that the doctrine applied and that the effect of a repudiatory breach was to enable a member to accept the breach and assert that the default provisions under the Limited Liabilities Partnership Act 2000 applied. In Liontrust Mr. Justice Henderson rejects that argument, save possibly in the case of a two member LLP.’
Littleton Chambers, 27th July 2015
Source: www.littletonchambers.com
‘Decision to let DS Robert Dawson retire contradicts new regulations by Theresa May to stop officers avoiding disciplinary action by quitting the force.’
The Guardian, 24th June 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘The FCA has published its Business Plan for 2015/2016. One of the key themes for both regulation and risk is the pensions market given the pension reforms taking place on 6 April. The Business Plan highlights the fact that the pensions market is a key area of concern for the FCA and an area which it will be monitoring closely in the next year and beyond.’
RPC Financial Services Blog, 27th March 2015
Source: www.rpc.co.uk
‘More than 1,000 former senior police officers are seeking compensation after being forced to retire under the controversial regulation A19.’
BBC News, 10th March 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘An Appeal court judge has told the ex-wife of a millionaire horse surgeon to seek employment, warning that she has no right to expect “an income for life” at her former husband’s expense.’
The Guardian, 24th February 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Caroline Jennings reviews the recent EAT case of Palmer v RBS UKEAT/0083/14 which concerns whether or not a statutory restriction on eligibility for early retirement benefits could amount to age discrimination.’
No. 5 Chambers, 19th September 2014
Source: www.no5.com
‘Karen Henshaw stood up in court and broke into song about being forced to step down from her duties at the age of 70.’
Daily Telegraph, 8th August 2014
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Five police forces have appealed against a ruling that their use of a regulation to make older officers retire was not “proportionate”.’
BBC News, 3rd March 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Supreme Court, 26th February 2014
‘In the recent police A19 test case, the Employment Tribunal unanimously found, “that the practice of requiring the retirement of nearly all officers in the Forces who could be required to retire under Regulation A19 of the Police Pensions Regulations 1987 was not a proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim”, and therefore amounted to age discrimination.’
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 11th February 2014
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk
‘Five police forces could face paying out millions of pounds after officers who were forced to retire after 30 years won an age discrimination claim.’
BBC News, 5th February 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A regulation allowing police forces to forcibly retire officers after 30 years’
service is not unlawful, the High Court has ruled.”
BBC News, 25th July 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A test case to establish whether a number of pension schemes which allowed members access to their savings before the minimum retirement age were legal has begun at the High Court.”
OUT-LAW.com, 16th July 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
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