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13 December 2022
Categories: Legal News , Profession , Pensions
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LNB NEWS: MoJ publishes December update on fee-paid judicial litigation

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has published a statement providing a further update into the department’s work into providing pension benefits to eligible judges for fee-paid services. 

Lexis®Library update: The update covers the progress in processing claims and payments by both the MoJ Judicial Claims Team and by XPS, the scheme administrator. The next update will be provided on 10 February 2023.

This statement is the latest update on the government’s progress towards providing a remedy for affected judges following the CJEU judgment in Ministry of Justice v O’Brien (No 2) [2017] UKSC 46, and Supreme Court judgment in Miller and others v Ministry of Justice [2019] UKSC 60, [2019] All ER (D) 83 (Dec).

The full statement can be found here.

Previous MoJ statements can be found here.

Source: Ministry of Justice statement in fee-paid judicial litigation: December 2022

This content was first published by LNB News / Lexis®Library, a LexisNexis® company, on 12 December 2022 and is published with permission. Further information can be found at: www.lexisnexis.co.uk.

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