11 March 2016
Safeway Ltd v Newton and another [2016] EWHC 377 (Ch), [2016] All ER (D) 17 (Mar)
The Chancery Division ruled on when a change in the normal pension age for members of the pension scheme for employees of the claimant company, Safeway Ltd, took effect. It held that a 2 May 1996 deed had not been effective to retrospectively introduce a common normal pension age for the future (65 for men and women) for the period from 1 December 1991. The result was that both men and women were entitled to benefits in respect of the period from 1 December 1991 to 2 May 1996 based on an NPA of 60.
