Pensions disputes

Our pensions disputes team has substantial experience of dealing with disputes between trustees and employers and their advisers.

We have experience of resolving significant disputes via mediation as well as proceeding via more formal court applications.

Litigation is expensive and always carries a risk. Mediation is a practical solution, but early intervention is by far the most effective means of dealing with disputes.

Our pragmatic approach tackles the problem head on from the start to help diffuse the situation.

Experience

• Acted for trustees seeking the Court’s declarations as to the validity and effect of various scheme deeds.
• Acted for trustees and the scheme employer in a substantial and highly complex professional negligence claim against its former legal advisers. The claims related to defective drafting of scheme documentation in relation to pension increases which resulted in an additional multi-million pound liability for the Scheme.
• Acted for trustees and the scheme employer in relation to substantial claims against former advisers. The claims arise as a consequence of the advisers failing to properly advise in relation to the scope and effect of the scheme’s amendment power.
• Advising in respect of proceedings issued for declarations as to the validity of several scheme amendments and the consequential recovery of potential substantial over payments.
• • Advised trustees in relation to multiple, complex claims to the Pensions Ombudsman