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Representation:
Brian Green QC and Jonathan Hilliard instructed by Freshfields
Bruckhaus Deringer for the employer.
Andrew Simmonds QC instructed by Clifford Chance for the trustees.
Andrew Spink QC and Keith Bryant instructed by Bond Pearce for the representative beneficiary.
Authority for the proposition that:-
the courts will follow a principle of "minimum interference" when altering a pension scheme's termes so as to give full effect to equalisation of pension ages as required under European law.
For relevant general notes see Pensions/equalisation of pension ages
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prepared July 2009