Court of Appeal

Former GP Noble trustee Graham Pitcher's application to appeal his eight-year prison sentence has been refused.

The Court of Appeal has upheld an Upper Tribunal ruling against a group of Lehman Brothers firms fighting to be excluded from a financial support direction (FSD) issued by The Pensions Regulator (TPR).

The Court of Appeal has ruled that the Olympic Airlines Pension Scheme cannot move into the Pension Protection Fund (PPF).

Standard Life has won a legal appeal case brought by professional indemnity insurers over a £100m claim relating to losses arising from its Sterling fund.

The 38 Lehman Brothers companies fighting to be excluded from The Pension Regulator's financial support direction have secured a hearing in the Court of Appeal next April.

The High Court has ruled trustees in the Federated Flexiplan case have the discretion to award or withhold any surplus arising in the scheme from members.

National Insurance contributions are due on pre-6 April 2006 employer payments into funded unapproved retirement benefit schemes, the Court of Appeal has ruled.

Unions have lost their appeal against the judicial review that backed the government's decision to use the Consumer Prices Index for uprating public sector pensions.

Pensioner groups fighting the government's RPI to CPI switch for benefit increases took their legal challenge to the Court of Appeal today.

Cash payments made to Scottish and Newcastle employees to placate them over the loss of their defined benefit pension are taxable, the Court of Appeal finds.