Hayley specialises in pensions litigation and co-ordinates the firm’s pensions litigation practice outside London.

Hayley's experience

  • Advised Places for People Group Limited and Places for People Homes Limited on a combined settlement approval and rectification hearing concerning one of the most complex pensions claims before the courts of England and Wales, involving defective amendments, deed execution issues, statutory validity and large-scale rectification claims.

  • Advised a subsidiary company of a large food production business in connection with regulatory proceedings commenced by the Pensions Regulator.

  • Advised the representative beneficiary of the members of the Volvo Group UK Pension Scheme in relation to a rectification application.

  • Advised the West Bromwich Building Society on a successful rectification application.

  • Advising a firm following the Pensions Regulator’s demand to hand over its clients’ files. We helped the firm navigate the onerous requirements using our expertise to negotiate deadlines, challenge wide-ranging requests, redact privileged material and advise on the handling of GDPR special category data.

  • Defending client with over 10,000 employees against thousands of claims from £10 to £100m for pensions professional negligence claims.

  • Seeking the High Court’s directions about the validity of the conversion of DB benefits to DC benefits and possible age discrimination which could have an industry-wide impact.

  • Advised the Trustee of the ASD Retirement Benefit Scheme on a successful rectification application.

  • Advised Univar Solutions UK Limited in seeking the High Court’s direction that CPI rather than RPI applied to pension scheme benefits, saving the client £25m.

  • Acted for the trustees of a major Scheme in relation to multiple member complaints arising from an administration error.

Credentials

  • 2004
    Joined Pinsent Masons
  • 2002
    Qualified - England and Wales
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Out-Law / Insight by Hayley Goldstone

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