Supreme Court

Trustee decisions that give rise to unintended consequences may be harder to overturn following a Supreme Court ruling, lawyers have warned.

Administrators of Nortel and Lehman Brothers have reached the Supreme Court in their attempts to challenge a Financial Support Direction (FSD) issued by The Pensions Regulator against the insolvent companies.

Companies are less likely to be wound up because of their pension deficit after the Supreme Court upheld a decision to set a high threshold for declaring a business insolvent.

The UK's top judge, Supreme Court president Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury, will next month decide whether pension schemes should retain "super priority" status in insolvencies.

A Supreme Court has ruled that part-time judges may be entitled to the same pension rights as their full time counterparts.

The Supreme Court has ruled employers may have powers to forcibly retire staff at 65 - putting in doubt the abolition of the default retirement age.

The trustee of the Nortel Networks UK Pension Plan is petitioning the US Supreme Court to gain access to the company's bankrupt US affiliates' cash.

Supreme Court ruling welcomed

Employers could have powers to forcibly retire employees at 65, the Supreme Court has ruled, throwing into doubt the abolition of the default retirement age.

In the final part of our run-down of the most read Professional Pensions Online articles in 2011, we look at the rest of the top 20 news stories during the year - those in first to tenth place.