Wilberforce Chambers is a go-to name for many City firms and beyond in occupational pensions work, dealing with some of the largest and highest-value pensions cases. Notable cases include four of the set’s barristers (Brian Green KC, Michael Tennet KC, Edward Sawyer, Joseph Steadman) working on the widely publicised BBC pension scheme case – BBC v BBC Pensions Trustee – concerning the ability to modify the broadcasting service’s pension scheme. The set's caseload also includes Tennet KC and Fenner Moeran KC appearing in Brass Trustees Ltd v Goldstone, the leading case on how pension scheme trustees should take the Pension Protection Fund into account when determining how to act – a case that has now re-emerged after the company failed to uphold its compromise, and on which Moeran is representing Brass Trustees Ltd in new insolvency proceedings.
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Profile
Position
Michael’s practice encompasses litigation and advice in the fields of pensions (including professional negligence), financial services and private trusts. Has appeared in many of the most high profile and complex pensions cases of recent years.
He has a particular knowledge of the work of actuaries, both in relation to pension funds and life assurance funds.
Career
Called 1985; took Silk 2006; contributor to Ellison on ‘Pension Law and Practice’, and ’Professional Negligence and Liability’ (chapter on Actuaries).
Memberships
Commercial Bar Association; Chancery Bar Association.
Education
New College, Oxford (1984 Law First Class).
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