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I started my career with Provident Life (which later became Winterthur) in July 1990 and one of my first jobs was to deal with the implications of the Barber case. This was the European Court case of Barber v Guardian Royal Exchange, which decided that pensions were in effect pay and therefore pension schemes could not discriminate between men and women. This was the first time that I had really noticed the effect of European law on domestic pensions law, an area which has subsequently become a personal area of interest and which, over the years, has had an increasing influence on the le...