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  • Employment and pensions: Supplementary pensions proposal

    United Kingdom 10.02.1998
    Supplementary pensions proposal Mindful of the "demographic time bomb" and the need to encourage the free movement of people within the EU, the Commission has proposed a Directive to protect the supplementary...
  • Consumer law/free movement of goods: Competition rules in the postal sector

    United Kingdom 10.02.1998
    Competition rules in the postal sector The Commission has issued a Notice in which it sets out its approach in attempting to ensure a "level playing field" in postal services in the Community. The Notice...
  • Public procurement: EU public procurement closed to competition

    United Kingdom 10.02.1998
    EU public procurement closed to competition Two recent studies conclude that liberalisation of the EU public procurement market has had little effect. Big public purchasers such as government ministries...
  • Macaulay v Pensions Ombudsman 2

    United Kingdom 04.02.1998
    Reference: (1998) OPLR 107 The appellant complained to the Ombudsman in relation to a pension benefit which he claimed he was owed under the Federated Land and Building Company Limited Pension and Life...
  • Liability of actuary as manager/administrator 2

    United Kingdom 22.01.1998
    Reference: F00326 The member complained that the actuary had failed to include him in the distribution of the scheme's surplus when a scheme was wound up following the liquidation of the employer. The...
  • Disclosure of actuarial advice 2

    United Kingdom 14.01.1998
    Reference: F00814 The trustee changed the commutation and early retirement factors of the scheme. A member asked for copies of the actuarial advice that the trustee had received on the issue, arguing that...
  • Compensation offer - rejection by member 1

    United Kingdom 13.01.1998
    Reference: F00912 A manager offered to pay GBP 2,000 as compensation for its mistake in the compilation of a benefit statement. The member rejected this offer and went to the Ombudsman. The member had...
  • Elliott and another v Pensions Ombudsman and others 2

    United Kingdom 24.10.1997
    Reference: (1998) OPLR 21 The trustees paid almost the entire scheme surplus to the principal employer. No provision was made for providing limited price indexation on pension entitlements as required...
  • Department of Health v Pensions Ombudsman and Moss 1

    United Kingdom 30.07.1997
    Reference: (1997) OPLR 385 The member was an NHS doctor who retired in 1989 at age 60. The provisions of the NHS scheme provided for a deduction to be applied to the member's pension when he reached age...
  • Royal Heritage Life Assurance v Pensions Ombudsman 2

    United Kingdom 18.06.1997
    Reference: (1997) OPLR 171 Royal Heritage acted as manager of and issued two insurance policies to provide benefits under the Scheme to each of the members. One of the members subsequently moved to a new...