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About
Provided by Saul Margo
Practice Areas
Saul specialises in pensions, employment and professional negligence claims relating to pension schemes. His pensions practice encompasses both pure pensions litigation and advisory work with his litigation experience including Part 8, professional negligence and rectification claims. Saul recently acted for the successful Representative Beneficiary in the landmark case concerning the scope of the amendment power in the BBC Pension Scheme.
Additionally, Saul is in demand for his specialist knowledge of cross-over pensions and employment work having been instructed in the litigation relating to the judges pensions scheme, the police pension scheme, sexual orientation discrimination claims relating to the Teachers’ pension scheme and in the leading case relating to discrimination arising from the provision ill-health retirement benefits.
His employment work covers the full range of employment disputes including the private sector equal pay litigation and complex discrimination claims. He appears regularly in the appellate courts and sits part-time as an Employment Judge.
Saul is highly ranked for pensions and employment in legal directories, which describe him as: “Technically excellent, combined with preparation that leaves no point of evidence or legal argument unturned” and an “excellent senior junior.” able to “master the details of a large and complex case.”
Career
Year of Call: 2005
First in Philosophy (Cambridge)
MSc in Philosophy and Politics (LSE)
Denning Scholar (Lincoln’s Inn)
Publications
Association of Pension Lawyers
Employment Lawyers Association
Employment Law Bar Association
Industrial Law Society
COMBAR
Chambers Review
UK Bar
Saul Margo is a standout junior in the pensions market offering expertise in pure pensions litigation and advisory work, as well as issues at the intersection between pensions and employment law.
Saul Margo has acted in a number of pieces of group litigation in employment and pensions law. He has appeared for claimant groups in claims concerning public sector pensions and equal pay.
Saul Margo is a broad employment specialist with particular expertise in complex discrimination claims, equal pay and cases with an employment and pensions cross-over. He acts regularly in the ET, EAT and Court of Appeal.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Saulis always very thorough and forensic on the law."
"Saul is an excellent junior."
"Saul is very commercially minded, insightful in his comments and also very easy to deal with."
"Saul is very commercially minded, insightful in his comments and also very easy to deal with."
"He does a lot of work in pensions and employment, which gives him a valuable perspective that few other people of his seniority will have."
"Saulis always very thorough and forensic on the law."
"Saul is an excellent junior."
"Saul is very commercially minded, insightful in his comments and also very easy to deal with."
"Saul is very commercially minded, insightful in his comments and also very easy to deal with."
"He does a lot of work in pensions and employment, which gives him a valuable perspective that few other people of his seniority will have."
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