Capital Cranfield Trustees Ltd v Pinsent Curtis

[2005] EWCA Civ 860

For trustee suing former solicitors for c.£18 million for negligently failing to advise that trustee was entitled under the pension scheme's rules to claim a ‘buy out' contribution from the employer prior to the employer terminating its liability to contribute; preliminary issue as to whether ‘buy out' contributions were claimable as a matter of construction of the scheme's contribution rule; first UK authority on the construction of such a standard contribution rule