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August 22, 2024
UK Pension Deal Market Likely To Hit £40B In 2024
The value of pension insurance transactions in 2024 is likely to drop to £40 billion ($52.4 billion), an insurer has said, bucking expectations of another record-breaking year for the market.
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August 22, 2024
Nearly 2,000 Failing To Claim UK State Pension 'Goldmine'
Almost 2,000 people could be sitting on a pensions "goldmine" because they have failed to respond to letters from the Department for Work and Pensions about the potential underpayment of state pensions to their dead relatives, according to a former pensions minister.
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August 21, 2024
Sporting Co.'s Ex-Director Sentenced For COVID Loan Misuse
The former director of a Sussex-based sporting services company has been sentenced to eight months in prison, suspended for 12 months, and 150 hours of unpaid work for exploiting a government COVID-19 business loan, the U.K.'s Insolvency Service announced Wednesday.
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August 21, 2024
Ex-Barclays VP Loses Bias Case Over Potential Promotion
Barclays Execution Center defeated dozens of discrimination and unfair dismissal claims from a former vice president, after an employment tribunal ruled that she was bringing up personal qualms against a manager who hadn't treated her badly.
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August 21, 2024
Giving Disabled Worker A Poor Reference Was Discriminatory
An employment tribunal has ruled that a NHS trust discriminated against a disabled laboratory assistant by firing her and giving her a bad reference due to the amount of time she took for sick leave, saying most of that was caused by her conditions.
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August 21, 2024
Pension Bodies Call For Investment Consultants Regulation
The government should urgently move forward with delayed plans to bring investment consultants under the supervision of the Financial Conduct Authority, pension bodies and climate groups warned.
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August 21, 2024
Tribunal Lifts 21-Year Practice Ban, Praises Lawyer's 'Tenacity'
A tribunal praised a solicitor for her "tenacity" on Wednesday as it restored her to the profession 21 years after she was struck off for taking a loan from a client and paying clients' money into a personal account.
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August 21, 2024
UK Fraud Fund Pays Out £9.8M To Norton Pension Members
The pensions fraud compensation body said it has paid out £9.8 million ($12.8 million) to retirement savings plans sponsored by manufacturer Norton Motorcycles Holdings Ltd., after the company director was convicted of misappropriating funds.
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August 20, 2024
Judicial Proceedings Immunity Thwarts Whistleblower's Suit
An appellate tribunal ruled Tuesday that immunity from judicial proceedings blocks a former aide from claiming he faced groundless and malicious arbitration from his work after blowing the whistle on alleged staff mistreatment.
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August 20, 2024
Council's Failure To Help Disabled Staff Led To Early Retirement
An employment tribunal has ordered a county council to pay more than £184,000 (almost $240,000) to an assistant manager with a spinal disability, after failing to make reasonable adjustments enabling her to work at a children's home for a few more years.
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August 20, 2024
Firing For Saying You Can't Be Gay And Muslim Ruled Wrong
DHL Services Ltd. should not have fired a Muslim worker for his religious beliefs after he said he believes that people cannot be both gay and Muslim, a tribunal has ruled.
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August 20, 2024
Burness Paull-Led Canadian Biz To Buy I3 Energy For £174M
British oil and gas company i3 Energy PLC said Tuesday that it had agreed to be acquired by Canada-based international petroleum company Gran Tierra Energy Inc. for approximately £174.1 million ($225.4 million) in a deal guided by five law firms.
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August 20, 2024
Barclays Told To Reassess Promotion Process After Bias Case
A former vice president of Barclays was not passed over for a promotion because she was an Asian Muslim woman, but a split employment tribunal urged the bank to look at its promotion process.
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August 20, 2024
Royal Mail Strike Claims Axed After UK Supreme Court Ruling
A tribunal has struck out dozens of claims by postal workers that Royal Mail cut their pay and benefits for going on strike, concluding that their case was bound to fail because legislation did not protect them despite going against European human rights laws.
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August 20, 2024
Ex-Bird & Bird Partner Banned For Pursuing Junior Colleague
A former partner at Bird & Bird LLP has been banned from the legal profession for five years after he admitted behaving inappropriately toward a junior female colleague and abusing his position in an attempt to pursue a sexual relationship with her.
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August 20, 2024
Gov't Launches Pension Credit Promo Before Fuel Benefit Cut
The government launched a campaign on Tuesday to boost the number of people claiming pension credits, after it said that winter fuel allowances will be a means-tested benefit this year.
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August 19, 2024
Broker Wins Claim Over Bosses' Postchemotherapy Demands
Vantage Capital Markets Ltd. discriminated against a broker by withholding her pay until she completed excessive requirements to prove she was fit to work following cancer treatment, an employment tribunal has ruled.
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August 19, 2024
Bipolar Solicitor Loses Bias Claim Over Offer Withdrawal
An employment tribunal has ruled that a law firm did not know about a candidate's bipolar disorder when it reneged on a job offer because he never brought it up during the hiring process.
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August 19, 2024
Ex-DAC Beachcroft Paralegal Banned For Lying In Job App
The solicitors' watchdog said Monday that it has banned a former paralegal at DAC Beachcroft LLP after he failed to disclose that he was the subject of a county court judgment during the law firm's recruitment process.
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August 19, 2024
HMRC Did Not Victimize Female Civil Servant, Tribunal Finds
A former caseworker at HM Revenue and Customs was not unlawfully victimized by her manager who proposed a work meeting at her home because the request had nothing to do with her being a woman, a London employment tribunal has ruled.
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August 19, 2024
Pharmacist Painted As Aggressive By Colleagues Wins £59K
A Black pharmacist has won almost £59,000 ($76,600) in his claim against Boots as a judge found that his former colleagues racially profiled him as an aggressive Black man when he complained about their behavior.
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August 19, 2024
Gov't Will Meet With Women State Pension Campaigners
The U.K. pension minister will meet with women who are owed billions in compensation due to historic state pension failings, campaigners said.
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August 19, 2024
Ex-Finance Co. Director Denies Forcing CEO's Share Transfer
The former director of a lending business has denied forcing the chief executive of the company to transfer shares by concocting a false fraud allegation, and told a London court that his report to a regulator was justified.
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August 19, 2024
Gov't Targets Consolidation In First Phase Of Pension Review
The Labour government has said that the first phase of its retirement savings review will be centered on the consolidation of the defined contribution pension market.
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August 19, 2024
Pinsent Masons Steers Aviva's £34M Macmillan Pension Deal
Aviva PLC has covered £33.7 million ($43.7 million) of pension liabilities for Macmillan Cancer Support, which covers the retirement savings plans of all the retirees and deferred members of the British charity.