Pensions Regulator Tribunal meaning

In this issue: The Pensions Regulator The Pensions Ombudsman Funding and investment Members and benefits Brexit Daily and weekly news alerts New content Dates for your diary Trackers The Pensions Regulator TPR value drive sees DC wind-ups continue and seven pension schemes fined more than £30,000 in total TPR has released its latest compliance and enforcement bulletin for January to June 2024, together with a progress update on last year’s initiative designed to ensure savers in defined contribution (DC) pension schemes benefit from rules that require trustees to undertake a detailed value for members (dVFM) assessment. To date, around 17% of the DC schemes it has engaged with during this value-focused work have judged they do not deliver good value and have chosen to wind up. As the dVFM regime applies to roughly 1,323 DC schemes, if these outcomes were replicated across the wider DC market, the implication is that more than 200 schemes...

In this issue: Status and worker categories Employment tribunal equality claims Whistleblowing Individual rights arising from union membership Confidentiality, duties and restrictions: enforcement Employment tribunals Employment Appeal Tribunal Pensions LexTalk®Employment: a Lexis®Nexis community Daily and weekly news alerts Dates for your diary Trackers Status and worker categories Food delivery companies to introduce right to work checks for substitute drivers The Home Office has stated that, following discussions with the UK government, Deliveroo, Just Eat and Uber Eats plan to curb misuse of driver account sharing by their drivers. Each platform has agreed to implement new procedures enabling verification that any substitute couriers have permission to work in the UK. All three companies have reiterated plans to roll out checks to confirm substitutes’ legal right to work. Deliveroo has already begun, adding right to work screenings for substitutes at the registration stage earlier this month. See: LNB News 30/04/2024 76. Department...

Brexit headlines Defra sets out scope of legislative alignment under UK-EU SPS Agreement The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) has outlined the EU legislation it considers to sit within the scope of the proposed UK‑EU Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) Agreement. The statement confirms the government’s intention to seek legislative alignment with EU rules, including dynamic alignment, to lessen administrative burdens and reduce costs associated with agrifood trade. It indicates that, in most cases, alignment is anticipated to substitute for, rather than add to, current domestic requirements, despite the limited divergence since EU exit. Defra also signals that the referenced EU measures, together with related implementing and delegated acts, presently set the expected boundaries of the agreement’s scope, and that further updates and detailed guidance for businesses will be issued following the conclusion of negotiations...

THIS PRACTICE NOTE APPLIES ONLY TO DEFINED BENEFIT OCCUPATIONAL PENSION SCHEMES When performing its functions, the Determinations Panel of the Pensions Regulator follows two distinct procedural pathways that must be observed, and must be followed at all times. These two sequences are known as the Standard Procedure and the Special Procedure. the Standard Procedure the Special Procedure As a reserved regulatory function of the Pensions Regulator, issuing a contribution notice or a financial support direction may only be carried out by the Determinations Panel using the Standard Procedure. The Special Procedure is adopted where there is a need to invoke the Regulator’s powers without delay to safeguard members’ interests or scheme assets. This route does not extend to contribution notices or financial support directions. For more detail on the Special Procedure, see The Pensions Regulator’s Determinations Panel—The Regulator’s procedures for exercising its functions. For additional information about the Panel, see Practice Note: The Pensions Regulator’s Determinations Panel. Stages of...

This tracker presents key pensions judgments delivered in 2025, organised by date. You can navigate the entries using the Table of Contents to the left of the page. Please note that pensions judgments from the General Regulatory Chamber (GRC) of the First-tier Tribunal (FTT) and the Upper Tribunal (UT) in 2025 that specifically concern appeals against decisions of the Pensions Regulator for breaches of automatic enrolment duties are recorded in a separate tracker — please see: Case tracker—2025 auto-enrolment pensions judgments... December 2025 Case details: Places for People Pension Trustee v Places for People Group — High Court (Chancery Division) — 19 December 2025 Citations: [2025] EWHC 3371 (Ch), Bailii High-level summary: The High Court sanctioned a settlement relating to the Places for People Group Retirement Benefit Scheme, addressing issues impacting members’ pension benefits...

THIS PRACTICE NOTE APPLIES TO TRUST-BASED OCCUPATIONAL PENSION SCHEMES This Practice Note considers the Pensions Regulator’s (the Regulator’s) powers to suspend or prohibit trustees of occupational pension schemes, and the statutory bases on which an individual or other legal person can be disqualified from acting as a trustee of an occupational pension scheme. Suspension and prohibition orders—reserved regulatory functions of the Regulator The Regulator’s powers to suspend or prohibit trustees of occupational pension schemes are: reserved regulatory functions exercised by the Regulator’s Determinations Panel and therefore subject to the standard procedure or, in special circumstances, the special procedure As part of the standard procedure, the Regulator must notify those persons who appear to be directly affected by a suspension or prohibition order that such an order is to be made. This will ordinarily include the continuing trustees of the relevant scheme. For further information on the Determinations Panel’s reserved regulatory functions, and on the standard and special procedures, see Practice...