Source: Occupational Pensions Issue: 152 Date: 01-01-2000 Publisher: IRS

In court 1999

TOPICS:
pay and benefits pensions
terms, conditions and employee rights employment tribunals and courts

SECTORS:
electricity, gas and water
finance
manufacturing (other)
paper and printing
public services
retail and wholesale
textiles
transport and communication

CASES: below is a list of cases discussed in this article. Click the case title for more XpertHR resources on the case and related cases.

University of Nottingham v (1) Eyett (2) the Pensions Ombudsman [1999] IRLR 87 HC (2 reports)
Preston and others v Wolverhampton Healthcare NHS Trust and others [2000] IRLR 506 ECJ (5 reports)
Levez v TH Jennings (Harlow Pools) Ltd [1996] IRLR 499 EAT (5 reports)
Air Jamaica Limited v Charlton PC (1 report)
Burrow v Burrow [1999] 1 FLR 508 HC (1 report)
Chief Adjudication Officer v Bath [2000] 1 FLR 8 CA (1 report)
Derby Daily Telegraph Ltd v (1) the Pensions Ombudsman (2) Thompson [1999] IRLR 476 HC (1 report)
Edge and others v Pensions Ombudsman and another [1999] PLR 215 CA (1 report)
Equitable Life Assurance Society v Hyman [2000] OPLR 101 HC (1 report)
Harding and others v Joy Manufacturing Holdings Ltd [2001] OPLR 235 CS (1 report)
HF Pension Scheme Trustees Ltd v Ellison and others 8 February 1999 HC (1 report)
Hillsdown Holdings plc v Commissioners of Inland Revenue [1999] PLR 173 HC (1 report)
Kemble and another v Hicks and others 17 June 1999 HC (1 report)
Key v Courtaulds Textiles plc 27 October 1998 HC (1 report)
Lansing Linde Ltd v Alber [2000] OPLR 1 HC (1 report)
Law Debenture Trust Corp Plc v Hereward Philips (A Firm) [1999] PNLR 725 HC (1 report)
Laws and another v The National Grid Company plc and others 31 July 1998 CA (1 report)
Legal & General Assurance Society Ltd v Pensions Ombudsman and others [2000] 2 All ER 577 HC (1 report)
NBPF Pension Trustees Ltd and another v Paddock and another [1999] 2 All ER 993 HC (1 report)
Parlett v Guppys (Bridport) Ltd (No 2) [1999] OPLR 309 CA (1 report)
Polly Peck International plc (in administration) v Henry [1998] OPLR 323 HC (1 report)
R v Dixon 24 November 1999 CA (1 report)
Raymond John Buckley v Hudson Forge Ltd & others [1999] PLR 151 HC (1 report)
Re Thirty-Eight Building Limited [1999] BCC 260 HC (1 report)
Scottish Equitable plc v Derby [2000] PLR 1 HC (1 report)
Taylor, Re 20 May 1999 CS (1 report)
The Law Debenture Trust Corporation plc v Malley [1999] OPLR 167 HC (1 report)
Wight v Olswang [1999] All ER (D) 436 CA (1 report)
Wilson v Wilson 9 June 1998 CS (1 report)
Villella v MFI Furniture Centres Ltd [1999] IRLR 468 HC (2 reports)
Bavin v NHS Trust Pensions Agency and another [1999] OPLR 285 EAT (2 reports)
Reffin v Kingston Upon Hull City Council EAT/421/98 (1 report)
Taylor v Secretary of State for Scotland [1999] IRLR 362 CS (2 reports)
Frankling and others v BPS Public Sector Ltd [1999] IRLR 212 EAT (2 reports)
City of Edinburgh Council v Rapley [2000] OPLR 67 CS (1 report)
Dormers Wells Infant School v Gill EAT/596/97 (2 reports)
Thomson v Desco of Glasgow Ltd EAT/1341/98 (1 report)


SUMMARY OF KEY POINTS

  • Occupational Pensions has, as usual, been monitoring court and tribunal cases concerning pensions and retirement and has identified 38 cases where the decision was given in 1999, or where the case was first reported during the year, plus eight criminal prosecutions.

  • The number of cases heard in the courts that started life as complaints to the Pensions Ombudsman was 11, much the same as in each of the three previous years.
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