Pensions Litigation

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Provided by Stephenson Harwood LLP

Our clients range from pension scheme trustees to sponsoring employers; from multi-nationals and banks to charities and not-for-profits; from actuaries and scheme administrators to lawyers and documentation providers. We work with pension consultants to help them with remediation projects arising from systemic issues, advising upon scheme unauthorised payment issues, client-money issues, referrals to regulatory bodies (including the Pensions Regulator and IoFA), professional standards, and problems arising from transfers (including enhanced due diligence obligations). 

Key work includes dealing with professional negligence claims and the often-associated rectification/construction applications.

The team are highly experienced in all types of pensions disputes cases, including:

• pursuing, or defending, professional negligence cases
• construction and rectification cases
• challenges to exercises of discretion by trustees
• moral hazard cases and investigations by the Pensions Regulator 
• judicial review and challenges to public bodies
• alternative dispute resolution, ranging from mediation to arbitration
• working with high-net worth individuals managing their pensions affairs and disputes
• RPI/CPI disputes 
• challenges to trustees' exercises of discretion 
• cross-border disputes involving multi-national businesses and funding support
• dealing with errors in the supply of services
• acting for representative beneficiaries