The British Medical Association has challenged the government in the High Court over pensions paid to widowers by public sector schemes in a case which could cost the taxpayer £4bn.
The union's lawyers have argued the current arrangements - under which the widower of a female doctor receives a lower pension than the widow of a male doctor - is unlawful discrimination which is ...
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