Pensions

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has published a policy statement on the cost control mechanism (CCM) and how it will operate in the reformed Judicial Pension Scheme 2022 (JPS 2022), which follows HM Treasury’s update on the approach to the CCM in all public service pensions under the Public Service Pensions Act 2013.

A bid by trade unions to challenge the Treasury’s decision to use a cost control mechanism contained in the Public Service Pensions Act 2013 (PSPA 2013) has failed in the High Court.

Optimist Simon Fennell, employment partner at Shoosmiths, searches for employment law positives in the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill, in the first part of an article in this week’s NLJ.

Could the revocation of retained EU law provide the opportunity to iron out some headaches for practitioners? Simon Fennell sets out his employment law wish list

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has issued a statement which provides an update on the work being done by the MoJ to provide pension benefits to eligible judges for fee-paid services. 

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has published a statement providing a further update into the department’s work into providing pension benefits to eligible judges for fee-paid services. 

The five-year review of the judicial salary structure has been postponed, the Lord Chancellor Dominic Raab has confirmed.

The Home Office has published updated technical notes that provide informal and non-statutory guidance on immediate detriment cases as part of the litigation in The Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice v McCloud; The Secretary of State for the Home Department, the Welsh Ministers and Others v Sargeant [2018] EWCA Civ 2844 (the McCloud/Sargeant judgment). 

The House of Commons Library has published a briefing on pension schemes for judges.

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has published the outcome of a consultation it held into reforming the judicial pension scheme