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Mitchell, , Re Application for Judicial Review [2025] NIKB 3 (20 January 2025)
Leave for judicial review was refused in a challenge over survivor’s pension rules excluding an unmarried cohabiting partner. The court found the claim out of time and unlikely to succeed.
Mitchel v The Defence Council & Anor [2022] NIQB 34 (13 May 2022)
The High Court of Northern Ireland held that a damages claim over survivor pension discrimination was, in substance, a public law challenge and should be brought by judicial review.
Eccles, Re Application for Judicial Review [2021] NIQB 111 (03 December 2021)
The High Court dismissed a judicial review by a PSNI constable seeking a survivor’s pension as an unmarried cohabiting partner. The court found the exclusion justified.
McClune v Northern Ireland Courts & Trib... Department for Communities Department of Justice Ministry of Justice (Unauthorised Deduction of Wages) [2020] NIIT 17980_19IT (13 February 2020)
The tribunal held it lacked jurisdiction over a direct auto-enrolment complaint under Northern Ireland pensions legislation, and rejected an unlawful deduction route.
JWS v Department for Communities (RP) (Inherited pensions) [2018] NICom 39 (29 August 2018)
The Commissioner disallowed a pension appeal, holding that guaranteed minimum pension is deducted from the overall retirement pension, not the additional pension element alone.
Lennon v South Eastern Education And Library Board [2015] NICA 3 (12 January 2015)
The Court of Appeal in Northern Ireland remitted a pensions ombudsman appeal for rehearing, holding the wrong burden and standard of proof may have been applied.
The Pensions Regulator and Garvin Trustees Ltd v Desmond [2013] NICA 62 (08 Nov 2013)
The Court of Appeal in Northern Ireland held that the Tribunal could substitute a contribution notice decision, and that the Article 34 time limit is applied by reference to the Panel’s original decision.
Brewster v Northern Ireland Local Government Officers' Superannuation Committee [2013] NICA 54 (1 October 2013)
The Court of Appeal in Northern Ireland held that a nomination requirement for a cohabiting partner’s survivor pension was not discriminatory or disproportionate.
Hawthorne's Application [2013] NIQB 76 (04 July 2013)
Judicial review about a police injury pension review. The court upheld the applicant’s right to appeal, but rejected the challenge to the medical review decision.
Desmond & Ors, Re (Application For Judicial Review) [2013] NIQB 58 (23 May 2013)
Leave for judicial review was refused in a pensions regulation challenge over alleged failure to determine Article 88 procedures and the lateness of the application.
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