The Court of Appeal is set to decide whether a judgment allowing schemes to restrict survivor benefits for civil partners and same-sex spouses is compatible with EU law.
In the 2014 case of Walker v Innospec, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) ruled that schemes should not be obliged to fully equalise survivor benefits under an exemption laid out in the Equality ...
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