We handle every type of pension and trust fund dispute, including applications for directions. We act in cases before the Courts, before the Pensions Regulator's Determinations Panel and before the Pensions Ombudsman. We have experience of claims brought against all manner of professionals working in pensions, including solicitors and barristers, actuaries, scheme administrators and accountants. We have defended well known members of the pensions industry and have also acted against them. Our work covers classic issues in pensions and trust disputes, novel issues arising out of an increasingly complex regulatory environment as well as disputes arising out of pensions aspects of corporate transactions. Such work includes:
- the meaning of the scheme rules
- statutory interpretation
- the use of surplus and the discharge of deficit
- the challenge of decisions by the Pensions Regulator
- allegations of breach of trust, fraud and mis-use of scheme powers
- life assurance industry disputes
- pensions mis-selling
- professional negligence and failure to advise
- claims for rectification
- conflicts of interest
- liability of trustees and directors of corporate trustees