Advisers react to FCA’s final BSPS compensation scheme
Seeking to appeal High Court decision
Record 90 judicial review applications last year
The High Court has rejected a bid for a judicial review into the £54m redress scheme brokered by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) offered by Capita and other businesses to Arch Cru investors.
A High Court judge has ordered that a decision notice issued by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) against a banker be quashed after a successful judicial review.
Lobby group Adviser Alliance has had its application for a judicial review into the absence of an industry long-stop rejected - but has vowed to continue the fight for a time-bar on complaints.
IFA lobbying unit Adviser Alliance says the political momentum generated by the parliamentary debates on RDR presents the best opportunity to revise the Review and reveals it has received an offer to fund a judicial review into the lack of a time limit...
Pension campaigners have expressed their delight at the House of Lords support for the establishment of a pension protection lifeboat fund.
The House of Lords has thrown down a test for Gordon Brown by passing a cross-party amendment to the Pensions Bill which would create a ‘lifeboat fund' for victims of occupational pension scheme wind-ups.
Pension campaigners are preparing to take the Department of Work and Pensions to court for a second time over its failure to provide proper compensation for workers who lost their pensions when their occupational schemes wound up.