Pressure mounts over pensions compensation

On Wednesday Justice Bean at the High Court ruled in favour of four pensioners who brought a case against the government for rejecting the findings of the report produced by the Parliamentary Ombudsman in March. The court ruled that the government was guilty of maladministration by providing inaccurate information about the security of final salary pensions which misled people into believing their pensions were safe when they weren’t. In addition, Justice Bean agreed with the claimants that the government’s decision to reject the Parliamentary Ombudsman’s finding of maladministration wa...