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Barnardo's v Buckinghamshire

[2018] UKSC 55; [2019] 2 All ER 175
JurisdictionUnited Kingdom
CourtSupreme Court of the United Kingdom
Year2018
StatusBinding authority

Key Principle

On the true construction of the Barnardo's pension scheme rules, the definition tying increases to the Retail Prices Index did not empower the trustees to substitute the Consumer Prices Index (or another index) for RPI while RPI remained an officially published index; pension scheme deeds are to be construed objectively as formal, long-term instruments intended to be relied on by persons not party to their drafting.

Area of Law

General

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