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Oct 10, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Penny Cogher |Harriet Fletcher
Penny Cogher and Harriet Fletcher explain recent pensions law developments:Lifetime Allowance: HMRC has confirmed, in Newsletter 162, that some corrective regulations will be coming “as soon as Parliamentary time allows” to address some of the technical problems with the Finance Act 2024 which abolished the Lifetime Allowance. We understand that the Lifetime Allowance will not be re-introduced.
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Jul 17, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Harriet Fletcher |Penny Cogher
In a short and focussed 12-minute speech, revealing the Labour Government’s plan to introduce forty bills over the next year, the King said his government's legislative programme would be "mission-led" and based upon the principles of "security, fairness and opportunity for all".
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Jul 3, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Penny Cogher |Michael White |Harriet Fletcher
New announcement from The Pensions Ombudsman (TPO) reinforces the need for individuals and schemes to engage with IDRPs seriously. TPO has announced that it will no longer consider complaints through its Early Resolution Service where the matter has not gone through all stages of the pension scheme’s IDRP, effective later this year. BackgroundTPO continues to derive its principal powers by statute and, in particular, Part X of the Pension Schemes Act 1993.
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Jun 19, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Penny Cogher |Harriet Fletcher
Rishi Sunak’s General Election announcement on Wednesday 22 May left very little time for Parliamentary Business to be completed before Parliament dissolved and purdah started.
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Apr 5, 2024 | 
foreignaffairs.co.nz | Harriet Fletcher |Anglia Ruskin
Source: Anglia Ruskin UniversityPublished: 4 April 2024 at 15:00VIEWPOINT: ARU expert on how this new horror film has a unique feminist perspectiveBy Harriet Fletcher, Anglia Ruskin UniversityWarning: this article contains spoilersCamp, provocative and often kitsch, the “nunsploitation” subgenre rose to prominence in 1970s European cinema.
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Mar 25, 2024 | 
theconversation.com | Harriet Fletcher
Warning: this article contains spoilersCamp, provocative and often kitsch, the “nunsploitation” subgenre rose to prominence in 1970s European cinema. Exemplifying this trend were films including Ken Russell’s The Devils (1971) – which received an “X” (18) rating in the UK and the US due to its explicit sexual and violent scenes – and pornographic Italian films Images in a Convent (Joe D'Amato, 1979) and The Nun and the Devil (Domenico Paolella, 1973).
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Mar 24, 2024 | 
tolerance.ca | Harriet Fletcher |Anglia Ruskin
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Mar 13, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Penny Cogher |Harriet Fletcher
Key pointsOn 15 March 2023 (Budget Day), the Government announced the abolition of the lifetime allowance from 6 April 2024 and as a precursor, the removal of the lifetime allowance tax charge from 6 April 2023 onwards. This has created two different pension tax regimes:The New Regime, created by Finance Act 2024 – for pension taxation events that occur from 6 April 2024.
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Mar 7, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Penny Cogher |Harriet Fletcher
Yesterday I set out my initial post budget thoughts Budget 2024: UK Defined Contribution Pension Changes (irwinmitchell.com)Today, I am going to look at the key points from the Chancellor’s speech and the accompanying “Budget Documents”, conveniently listed at Spring Budget 2024 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)As my colleague, Martin Jenkins predicted in January Pensions Law: What’s on the horizon for 2024?
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Jan 24, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Penny Cogher |Harriet Fletcher
Penny Cogher and Harriet Fletcher from the Irwin Mitchell Pensions team explain why the BP Pension Scheme has recently featured in the Pensions press and look at why discretionary increases have suddenly become a hot topic. In December 2023, BP Pensioner Group announced that it had begun a legal process against senior members of BP management and directors of the BP Pension Fund Trustee, following concerns around the value of members' pensions.
