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An important volume examining the understudied area of pensions law, featuring leading legal scholars.

Table of Contents

1. Trusts as Pension Pots: A Legal-Historical Perspective, c 1800–1925
Sinéad Agnew
2. UK Collective Defined Contribution: Is it ‘Dutch-Style’ Collective Defined Contribution?
Sandeep Maudgil and Hans Van Meerten
3. The Employer Covenant: Status in Law and Operation in Practice
Paul Brice
4. Interpretation of Pension Trusts: Applying the General Rules?
David Pollard
5. Rectification and Pensions
Paul S Davies
6. The Pension Fund as a ‘Virtual’ Institution
M Scott Donald
7. Legal Consequences of the Flawed Exercise of Scheme Powers
Jessica Hudson and Charles Mitchell
8. Expertise in Pension Trusteeship
Deborah Mabbett
9. Pension Scheme Decision-Making Influencers
Charles Cameron
10. The Social Role of Occupational Pension Schemes
James Kolaczkowski
11. Public Law Perspectives on the IBM Case
Philip Sales
12. Pensions Law, IBM v Dalgleish and the Public/Private Divide
Alan Bogg and Mark Freedland
13. The Improper Purpose Rule: An Employer’s Tool to Control Pension Trustees in Need of Reappraisal
Dan Schaffer
14. Pensions and the Modern Workforce
Alysia Blackham
15. The Courts, Non-Discrimination and Systemic Change in UK Public Sector Pension Schemes
Lydia Seymour
16. Cutting Pension Rights for Public Workers in the United States: Don’t Look to the Courts for Help
Ronald H Rosenberg
17. Till Pensions Do Us Part: The Pension Advisory Group and the Search for Consensus on Divorce
Hilary Woodward and Rhys Taylor
18. ‘Pension Freedoms’, Social Care and Inheritance
Brian Sloan

About the Author

Sinéad Agnew is Lecturer in Property Law, Paul S Davies is Professor of Commercial Law and Charles Mitchell is Professor of Law, all at University College London.

Reviews

A fascinating read … the book’s main strengths are in bringing together a diverse range of academics, legal practitioners and legal scholars to provide an enlightening and thought-provoking collection of chapters discussing pensions policy, law and practice. Drawing on a range of policy and practice examples, it provides a detailed account of complex debates and legal considerations in relation to pensions, showing the challenges of competing demands on the various roles and responsibilities of different parties and interest groups in the field. It is a well written and informative text.
*Journal of Social Security Law*