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Moratorium in fee-paid judicial pension cases

PUBLISHED April 5, 2013
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The Lord Chancellor has written today to the Lord Chief Justice, the Lord Chief Justice Northern Ireland, the Lord President of the Court of Session, the President of the UK Supreme Court and the Senior President of Tribunals to announce a moratorium in fee-paid judicial pension  cases.

Following the case of O?Brien v Ministry of Justice and the decision of the UK Supreme Court that fee-paid Recorders are entitled to a pension, The Lord Chancellor has written today to the Lord Chief Justice, the Lord Chief Justice Northern Ireland, the Lord President of the Court of Session, the President of the UK Supreme Court and the Senior President of Tribunals to announce a moratorium in fee-paid judicial pension  cases.
 
The purpose of the moratorium is to remove the need for potential claimants to lodge a ?protective? claim from now on.  The O?Brien case has been referred back to the Employment Tribunal and the litigation continues there.

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