Outer Temple Chambers is ‘a strong pensions set’, and is well known for advising on pensions-related employment law matters. In a prominent case highlight, multiple members of the set – two silks and two juniors – appeared in Avon Cosmetics v Dalriada Trustees, in relation to an amendment being made to a pension scheme. The key issue of the matter focused on how to handle purported amendments to schemes made outside the scope of the amendment’s power, and when aspects of the amendment may invalidate the entire amendment. In a separate matter,
Nicolas Stallworthy KC and
Nicholas Hill acted in the notable BRASS Trustees v Goldstone and The Pension Protection Fund case, which involved the first reported approval of an application claim brought by a trustee to wind up the pension scheme’s sponsoring employers.