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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

A guide to surviving pensions on divorce has been published by Advicenow, the independent website (www.advicenow.org.uk) run by the charity Law for Life: the Foundation for Public Legal Education

Lloyds’ trustees have a duty to equalise minimum pension benefits when calculating historic transfers, the High Court has held in a ruling on pensions equality

The clock is ticking for obtaining effective UK pension sharing orders after an overseas divorce once the Brexit transitional period ends on December 31, practitioners are warning

Judges and family practitioners are changing tack in their approach to pensions sharing on divorce, research shows

Twenty years on from the introduction of pension sharing on divorce, the issue remains a hugely complex area that can spark highly emotive battles with no guarantee of equality. Yet there are signs that practitioners and the courts are starting to change their approach to the division of pensions to ensure a fairer outcome. Grania Langdon-Down reports

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Pensions

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Cripps—Radius Law

Switalskis—Grimsby

Slater Heelis—Will Newman & Lucy Spilsbury