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David E. Grant KC, Philip Stear and Naomi Ling will be discussing ‘Pension law give and take? Cross-fertilisation with other areas of legal practice: some thoughts.’ This forum will explore cases in which public law, private trusts law and contract law have been imported into pensions and, on occasions, where developed principles have been re-exported, enabling us to consider the scope for further cross-fertilisation. The talk will highlight potentially lesser known cases and concepts from which pensions practitioners might profit and consider when it might be appropriate for similar concepts to evolve in parallel.
This will be a hybrid event. In-person guests to arrive at 5:45pm for a 6pm start.
The cost of attending the forum (in person or remotely) is £20. To book a place at the event, please click here.
To find out more about the event, click here.
David E. Grant KC TEP is a chancery and commercial practitioner with specialist expertise in pensions, trusts, will and estates and professional negligence. He has extensive advocacy experience up to the European Court of Justice and has also attended numerous mediations and round table meetings. David is happy as sole advocate or leading a counsel team and enjoys the process of working with his instructing solicitors, lay clients, insurers, funders, experts and other interested parties. His clients have included many leading international businesses, prominent charities and trusts, various statutory bodies as well as high net worth individuals and group claimants. has been involved in some of the most high-profile pensions cases in recent years.
Philip Stear has a broad (advisory and contentious) Chancery practice with a particular focus on private trusts and occupational pension schemes. Philip is an acknowledged expert in relation to technical pensions law and regulatory practice, and combines this with long practical experience of occupational pension schemes and the practical challenges they face in relation to governance and trusteeship, benefit design and modification, funding and security and member communications and disputes.
Naomi Ling has over twenty years’ experience as an advocate and is sought after as a specialist in both employment law and pensions law and in particular the area of cross-over between the two. Her practice covers a wide range of fields. In the employment tribunal she deals with cases including multiparty discrimination, equal pay and holiday pay claims, and complex and sensitive discrimination and whistleblowing claims. In the High Court she is instructed on black letter pensions trusts issues, and other commercial matters in the pensions and employment spheres including liability for TUPE issues and employment related entitlements.
To find out more about David, Philip or Naomi, contact Matt Sale on +44 (0)20 7427 4910.
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