The date of sponsor insolvency should be used to calculate section 75 debt liabilities - saving sponsors millions of pounds in potential liabilities, the High Court rules.
The judgment means Icelandic bank Kaupthing Singer & Friedlander - which went into liquidation in October 2008 - will not have to pay out an additional £66m to its pension scheme. The "eye water...
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