Pensions Update - December 2010

Welcome to the December issue of "Pensions Pieces", our bi-monthly newsletter. Our aim is to highlight interesting aspects of recent developments in a concise, reader-friendly format. We hope that you will find this a useful and informative compliment to your existing pensions reading.

In this edition we look at:

• Case law update
• IMG appeal ruling - it's Goode to compromise
• The Catchpole case - "Marriage - a minor inconvenience..."
• The MNRPF case - not off the hook
• Pilots' appeal
• News from the Regulator
• Lehman FSD - a warning to service company operators
• Guidance on employer debt
• Guidance on monitoring employer support
• Statement on Employer-Related Investment
• Legislative change
• "It's not what we meant to say" - section 251 of the Pensions Act 2004
• Extension of employer investment restrictions
• Equality Act 2010
• Consultations
• Phasing out of default retirement age
• The abolition of contracting-out for DC schemes
• News from Parliament
• Lord Hutton's interim report
• Pensions aspects of the spending review
• Taxation of pensions of high earners

Lawyers Mark Smith