WCarson & Another v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2003] EWCA Civ 797 was heard in the Court of Appeal in the Supreme Court on 17 June 2003 before Lord Justice Brown, Lord Justice Laws, and Lord Justice Rix.
WCarson and Others v. The United Kingdom [2008] ECHR 1194 was heard by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), Fourth Section in Strasbourg on 4 November 2008 appeal from the Appellate Committee of the House of Lords before Lech Garlicki (President); Nicolas Bratza; Giovanni Bonello; Ljiljana Mijović; David Thór Björgvinsson; Ledi Bianku; Mihai Poalelungi.
WCarson and Others v. The United Kingdom [2010] ECHR 338 was heard by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), in Strasbourg on 16 March 2010 on appeal from the European Court of Rights (ECHR), Fourth Section before Jean-Paul Costa (President), Christos Rozakis, Nicolas Bratza, Peer Lorenzen, Françoise Tulkens, Josep Casadevall, Karel Jungwiert, Nina Vajić, Dean Spielmann, Renate Jaeger, Danutė Jočienė, Ineta Ziemele, Isabelle Berro-Lefèvre, Päivi Hirvelä, Luis López Guerra, Mirjana Lazarova Trajkovska, Zdravka Kalaydjieva.
WThe Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is the British Government department responsible for welfare, pensions and child maintenance policy. As the UK's biggest public service department it administers the State Pension and a range of working age, disability and ill health benefits to around 20 million claimants and customers. It is the second largest governmental department in terms of employees, and the largest in terms of expenditure (£187bn).
WThe Government Actuary’s Department (GAD) provides actuarial solutions including risk analysis, modelling and advice to support the UK public sector. It is a department of the Government of the United Kingdom.
WThe Judicial Pensions and Retirement Act 1993 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that strengthened the mandatory retirement provisions previously instituted by the Judicial Pensions Act 1959 for members of the British judiciary.
WThe Old-Age Pensions Act 1908 is an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, passed in 1908. The Act is often regarded as one of the foundations of modern social welfare in both the present-day United Kingdom and the Irish Republic and forms part of the wider social welfare reforms of the Liberal Government of 1906–1914.
WThe Pension Schemes Act 1993 is a United Kingdom Act of Parliament that concerns the administration of occupational pensions.
WPension Wise is a free and impartial service set up by government in 2015 offering guidance for people regarding pension freedoms introduced in the 2014 United Kingdom budget. Under these changes those with a defined contribution pension scheme will no longer be forced to buy an annuity. Instead they will be allowed to take as much or as little from their pension pot as they wish to invest or spend themselves. The Independent has described this change as the biggest change to pensions in nearly a century.
WThe Pensions Act 1995 is a piece of United Kingdom legislation to improve the running of pension schemes.
WThe Pensions Act 2004 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom to improve the running of pension schemes.
WThe Pensions Act 2007 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It incorporated the main findings of the all-party Pensions Commission in 2006 as set out in the white paper Security in retirement: towards a new pension system published in May 2006.
WThe Pensions Act 2008 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The principal change brought about by the Act is that all workers will have to opt out of an occupational pension plan of their employer, rather than opt in. A second change is the creation of a National Employment Savings Trust, a public pension provider for those who do not have an occupational pensions, which will function as a low-fee pension scheme in competition with existing funds.
WThe Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association is a trade association for those involved in designing, operating, advising and investing in all aspects of workplace pensions.
WFounded in 1976, the Pensions Management Institute (PMI) is the UK's largest and most recognisable professional body for employee benefits and retirement savings professionals, supporting over 6,500 members in 32 countries.
WThe Police (Superannuation) Act 1906 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom amending the system of police pensions for England and Wales established by the Police Act 1890, Police (Scotland) Act 1890 and Police Act 1893. Four years later similar amendments were made for Scotland by the Police (Scotland) Act (1890) Amendment Act 1910.
WThe Police Act 1890 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom setting up a system of police pensions. A similar system for Scottish forces was established by the Police (Scotland) Act 1890.
WThe Police (Superannuation) Act 1906 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom amending the system of police pensions for England and Wales established by the Police Act 1890, Police (Scotland) Act 1890 and Police Act 1893. Four years later similar amendments were made for Scotland by the Police (Scotland) Act (1890) Amendment Act 1910.
WThe Police Act 1890 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom setting up a system of police pensions. A similar system for Scottish forces was established by the Police (Scotland) Act 1890.
WThe Police Act 1893 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It clarified the Police Act 1890 by stating that time spent by an officer acting as a fireman or extinguishing a fire was to be accounted as time spent "in the execution of his duty" and enabled watch committees to use police officers full- or part-time as firemen, with their pay, pensions and gratuities funded from the usual police, "fire police" or "fire brigade" sources. It also enabled police authorities to increase an ex-officer's injury pension in the first three years after it was first granted if a medical assessment proved the ex-officer's level of disability had increased from partial to total.
WR (Carson) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2005] UKHL 37 was heard by the Lords of Appeal in the House of Lords on 26 May 2005 before Lord Nicholls, Lord Hoffmann, Lord Rodger, Lord Walker, and Lord Carswell.
WR (Carson) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions & Another [2002] EWHC 978 (Admin) was heard in the Administration Court of the Queen's Bench Division in the High Court of Justice on 22 May 2002 before the Honourable Mr. Justice Burnton.
WR (Carson) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and R v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions were a series of civil action court cases seeking judicial review of the British government's policies under the Human Rights Act 1998. They related to the right to property under Article 1 of the First Protocol and prohibition of discrimination under Article 14 of the convention. In Reynolds's case, there was also Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), the right to respect for "private and family life" to be considered, as well as Article 3 of the ECHR, the prohibition of torture, and "inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment".
WThe Scottish Parliamentary Pensions Act 2009 was an Act of the Scottish Parliament to set out rules to govern the Scottish Parliamentary Pension Scheme which was passed by the Parliament on 22 January 2009 and received Royal Assent on 25 February 2009.
WThe Superannuation Act 2010 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It caps the redundancy payouts to civil servants at 15 months' salary. Initially the proposal was for a maximum of 12 months' salary. This was raised during the passage of the Bill to 15 months in the case of voluntary redundancy.
WThe Taxation of Pensions Act 2014 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that received Royal Assent on 17 December 2014, after being introduced on 14 October 2014. The purpose of the Act was to allow greater flexibility by removing certain restrictions relating to pension annuities becoming entitled on or after 6 April 2015 and authorising one-off pension payments not made through a drawdown fund.