RPI/CPI legal challenge reaches Court of Appeal

The start of the two-day hearing was combined with a protest outside the court. In October last year, the the Civil Service Pensioners' Alliance and a range of other pensioner groups applied for a judicial review of the coalition's decision to change the index used to uprate pensions, benefits and tax-credits from the Retail Prices Index (RPI) to the typically-lower Consumer Prices Index (CPI). The case was dismissed in the High Court but because one of three judges gave a dissenting view the ruling could be appealed. CSPA general secretary Mike Duggan said: "Before the last electi...