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TPR confirmed that, under the terms of the new agreement, ITV will bring the 2,800 Box Clever scheme members into its own pension arrangement. This move guarantees members their full entitlements, including back payments owed to them, replacing the reduced-level payments they had been receiving since 2014 under the Pension Protection Fund (PPF). 'Today's announcement shows how we deploy our powers to safeguard savers and, if required, vigorously pursue matters through the courts to secure an acceptable outcome,' said Mel Charles, the regulator's interim executive director of regulatory compliance. Box Clever was created in 2000 as a joint venture between Granada (now part of ITV) and Thorn Finance Ltd, which has since been renamed Carmelite Capital Ltd. When the venture failed in 2003, the pension fund was left underfunded and, as a result, prompted TPR to examine whether ITV had potential financial responsibilities to the scheme. In 2011 TPR warned ITV of its intention to issue financial support directions to five companies that were within its group, on the basis...

State aid AG issues opinion recommending Court of Justice should set aside the General Court’s judgment and annul the Commission’s decision regarding tax breaks granted by the UK to certain multinational groups between 2013 and 2018 Advocate General Medina has delivered his opinion in the appeals in the following Joined Cases, arising from the Commission’s 2019 decision and the General Court’s judgment. C-555/22 P United Kingdom v Commission C-556/22 P ITV v Commission and Others C-564/22 P LSEGH (Luxembourg) and London Stock Exchange Group Holdings (Italy) v Commission and Others The appeals contest the General Court’s judgment in Joined Cases T-363/19 and T-456/19, which dismissed an action for annulment against the Commission’s decision of 2 April 2019 (SA.44896). In that decision, the Commission found that, during 2013–2018, the UK had provided unlawful State aid to certain multinational groups via tax advantages. Advocate General Medina proposes that the Court of Justice overturn the General Court’s judgment and annul the Commission’s 2019...

In this issue: The Pensions Regulator Pensions dashboards Taxation Members and benefits Funding, surplus and investment Public sector pensions Dates for your diary Trackers The Pensions Regulator TPR announces full benefits secured for Box Clever pension members after ITV case The Pensions Regulator (TPR) confirms it has secured full benefits for all 2,800 members of the Box Clever Group Pension Scheme, bringing its long-running case against ITV to a close. Individuals who had received payments at Pension Protection Fund (PPF) levels since 2014 have now moved to the ITV Pension Scheme and will receive full scheme entitlement plus back payments. TPR has also released a regulatory intervention report setting out how, for more than a decade, it pursued ITV, deploying its Financial Support Direction (FSD) powers to require the broadcaster to underpin the scheme following the 2011 collapse of Box Clever—a joint venture between Granada (now ITV) and Thorn (now Carmelite). After ITV’s legal challenges,...

ARCHIVED : This case tracker has been archived and is not maintained. It hosts a catalogue of notable pensions judgments delivered in 2015. Alexander and others as Trustees of the Scottish Solicitors Staff Pension Fund v Pattison and Sim Case reference: CA63/13. The dispute concerned a Scottish pension scheme providing benefits to employees of solicitors’ firms and their dependants, and focused on changes to the scheme’s trust deed and rules. Until 1991, the rules imposed a ‘triple‑lock’ for amendments, demanding a two‑thirds majority at three separate general meetings: one of all employers and members, one of all contributing members, and one of all employers. The trustees pursued pension arrears of £50,224 to recover contributions alleged to be owed by the defenders in respect of a former employee of that firm, with the claim founded on amendments made to the scheme rules since 1990. The defenders (the firm of Pattison &...

Film and TV glossary A–B | Film and TV glossary C–D | Film and TV glossary E–H | Film and TV glossary M–P | Film and TV glossary R–S | Film and TV glossary T–W Incidental inclusion (‘passing shot’ use) Including a copyright-protected work only incidentally within an artistic work, sound recording, film or broadcast does not infringe that copyright. For example, a film shot on location at the South Bank in London would not breach rights in buildings or in music audible in the background when their presence is incidental. What qualifies as ‘incidental’ hinges on the facts of each matter. See Practice Note: Copyright—permitted acts and defences. Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO) IPSO is an independent, self-regulatory body that handles complaints about the editorial content (not advertising) of newspapers, magazines (not books) and their websites, as well as about certain kinds of behaviour by journalists working for those organisations. It replaced the Press Complaints Commission on 8 September 2014. See website: Independent Press Standards...

CASE HUB ARCHIVED This archived case hub captures the position as at the final decision dated 21 March 2025 and is no longer maintained. See the timeline for further details. Case facts An outline of the CMA’s Chapter I investigation into the sharing of commercially sensitive information among five undertakings engaged in the production and broadcasting of sports content. Latest development On 21 March 2025, the CMA issued an infringement decision and levied fines totalling €4,240,356 on four companies. The penalties for each party were: BT (6 infringements from August 2014 to September 2021)—£1,738,453 (including a 15% leniency reduction and a 20% settlement reduction) IMG (6 infringements between April 2016 and October 2021)...