2009

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• December 2009 - Online Tutorial for new Sackers Website

  Our online tutorial guides you through the new Sackers website

• December 2009 - Sackers warns pension scheme trustees not to lose sight of the big picture on scheme governance

  Specialist pensions law firm Sackers today alerts pension scheme trustees and sponsor companies not to lose sight of the purpose of good scheme governance. The firm has commented following the latest governance initiatives from the Pensions Regulator, which demonstrate that good governance is very much high on the Regulator’s agenda. In a week which has seen the new Code on Trustee Knowledge and Understanding become law, the Pensions Regulator has published its 2009 governance survey and also issued for consultation new guidance on internal controls (or risk management).

• November 2009 - Sackers submits comments on Employer Debt consultation

  Sacker & Partners LLP has responded to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) consultation on Employer Debt (Section 75 of the Pensions Act 1995).

• November 2009 - Sackers advises CDC Group on innovative DB pension scheme ‘buy-in’

  Sacker & Partners, the UK’s leading pensions law firm, has advised the Trustees of the CDC Group Pension Scheme on a transaction that will see Rothesay Life insure benefits for all scheme members under a c.£375m buy-in arrangement. Assets will remain in the scheme as collateral, a rarity for pension scheme buy-in agreements.

• November 2009 - Pauline Sibbit elected as Chairman of the APL

  Pauline Sibbit, partner at Sacker & Partners LLP, has been elected as Chairman of the Association of Pension Lawyers (APL) for a two-year period.

• November 2009 - Sackers submits comments to consultation on workplace pension reform - completing the picture

  Sacker & Partners LLP has responded to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) consultation: “Workplace Pension Reform - Completing the Picture”, which closes on 5 November 2009.

• July 2009 - Sackers submits comments to consultation on draft Personal Accounts Scheme Order & Rules

  Sacker & Partners LLP has responded to the joint consultation by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and the Personal Accounts Delivery Authority (PADA) (published on 28 April 2009) on the draft scheme order and rules for the new Personal Accounts Scheme. The consultation closed on 20 July 2009.

• July 2009 - Foster Wheeler v Hanley: The Court of Appeal decides

  The highly anticipated Court of Appeal decision in Foster Wheeler Limited v Hanley & ors (the latest in a long line of equalisation cases) was handed down today.

• March 2009 - Sackers submits comments to consultation on Flexible Retirement and Pension Provision

  Sacker & Partners LLP has responded to the consultation by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) (published on 16 December 2008) on Flexible Retirement and Pension Provision.

• March 2009 - ECJ publishes Heyday decision

  The European Court of Justice (ECJ) published its decision on the Heyday case today.