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Civil partnership pension ruling could set precedent: lawyer An employment tribunal ruling in favour of a gay couple fighting for pension rights could clear the way for a challenge in the European Court of Justice, a lawyer claims. Jennie Kreser, pensions partner at Silverman Sherliker, said the ruling could challenge rules stating widowed civil partners are not entitled to pension benefits accrued by their partners before 2005. Civil rights organisation Liberty brought a claim in an employment tribunal on behalf of Ian Waddy, 73, and his partner Trevor Skipp, 65, against Waddy's fo...