Archive for February, 2010

A clash of public policy? The IMG decision on compromises

Tuesday, 23 February 2010

Sometimes pension issues take a long time to emerge and can lead to disputes.  Often the issues can be difficult.  There have been several pension dispute cases recently, for example the cases concerning attempted equalisation back in the early 1990s.  In some of those cases it might be sensible to compromise to save the costs and time of going to court and agree a full and final settlement.

But can you compromise a pension claim?  (more…)

Something new…something blue…

Tuesday, 9 February 2010

I posted here about the things we knew (and the things we didn’t know) about the pension policies we might expect from an incoming Conservative government.  We still have only an outline of their priorities but a speech launching the Conservative’s “New British Economic Model” last week gave us (to coin a phrase) something old, something new, something borrowed from the party blue.

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