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The NHS has plans to scrape all your personal and medical data into a huge silo, which they plan to share (read sell) to commercial companies. The plan is to ...
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In 2020, following a successful claim by Ron Thompson of Haven Solicitors and David Lock QC of Landmark Chambers, the Government agreed a discretionary payment equal to a regulation 12 ...
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It appears that Essex Police intend to recommence injury pension reviews from April of this year. The official decision can be found here – https://www.essex.police.uk/foi-ai/essex-police/lists-and-registers/essex-police-pension-board/essex-police-pension-board-scheme-manager-notice-to-injury-benefit-pensioners/ A briefing note can be ...
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The Government have released a new response to the fiasco that is the enforced transfer to The Police Pension Regulations 2015 of a large number of serving officers that were ...
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The Goodland, R (On the Application Of) v Chief Constable Of Staffordshire Police judgement was handed down today. An appeal is currently being considered. Goodland, R (On the Application Of) ...
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Many of our members, have over a period of time, used the free pension calculator on the Emergency Lounge site, which can be found here – http://emergencylounge.com/police/pension_calculator/ The site has ...
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The Home Office have released a consultation document providing remedies and a way forward over the age-discrimination issues that came out of the forced imposition of the Police Pension Regulations ...
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The Daily has today run an article about the Staffordshire Police judicial reviews which is due to be heard at Birmingham Administrative Court today and Thursday. It summarises the situation ...
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The UK’s leading authority in police pensions, David Lock QC, is releasing a number of podcasts, providing an in depth discussion of all the current police pension schemes including The ...
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Further to our news item and the thoughts David Lock QC on the discriminatory nature of the Police Pension Regulations 2015, here is a link for those who may have ...
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David Lock QC gives an interesting insight into a number of conflicting cases and how recent case law has been shaped. The conflict is between Laws/Evans on one hand and ...
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David Lock QC has released a new paper over the financial disaster that was imposed on some police officers by the forced implementation of the Police Pension Regulations 2015. The ...
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The Government have capitulated over the granting of psychiatric injury awards when faced with a looming court challenge. Regulation 12 of The Police (Injury Benefit) Regulations 2006 allows for an ...
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On 2nd October 2019, we published a news item regarding concerns over substantial underpayments of ill-health pensions by the Police Service of Northern Ireland (‘PSNI’). You can read the original ...
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Gareth Morgan commented on the decisions he’s made:  “I’m fairly unapologetic about it” Chief Constable Gareth Morgan, has taken part in a new BBC documentary, “Cops like us”, following police ...
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A report released by the Northern Ireland Audit Office into Injury on Duty payments to officers is “disappointing and unfair” according to the Police Federation of Northern Ireland. A report ...
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Home Secretary Priti Patel has launched a consultation on a new covenant to recognise the service and sacrifice of the police. The Police Covenant will enshrine the rights of serving ...
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Lloyd Kelly case establishes an injured police pensioner’s right to a police injury pension from the date of retirement, even if the pension is awarded in subsequent years. In a ...
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Thanks to the generosity of Staffordshire entrepreneur, Ian Draper of Draper Vehicle Solutions Ltd, Brentwood, Staffordshire, we have taken possession of a sponsored vehicle, which will greatly assist IODPA to ...
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We are pleased to report that on Friday 13th December 2019, David Lock QC has been successful in his application in the Administrative Court in Birmingham to have secured a ...
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We were recently contacted by a retired officer from the Police Service of Northern Ireland (‘PSNI’) regarding an ill-health pension calculation from two years ago. The officer had joined the ...
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In a recent court case, several recently retired officers from Essex Police and the Avon and Somerset Constabulary brought a joint action by way of judicial review against a decision ...
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Last December a group of judges and firefighters won a Court of Appeal case against the government. The Court decided that changes made to their pension schemes were age discriminatory ...
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Following the recent case brought by David Lock QC and Cartwright King Solicitors and the decision of the Court of Appeal in Evans & Ashcroft v Chief Constable of South ...
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