News Archive

July 2009

Finance Act 2009 � Anti-Forestalling measures

Jul 2009 Mark Riordan

The Finance Act 2009 received Royal Assent on 21 July. The Act introduces a number of measures that focus predominantly on the taxation of income and pension savings for high earners.

Radar: Your Communications Information Station

Jul 2009 Ruth Keron

Capita Hartshead Communications Consulting and Delivery is pleased to announce the launch of Radar, a magazine dedicated to communications, aimed at HR and benefit professionals.

Hartshead staff scale dizzying new heights

Jul 2009 Clive Wickenden

In January 2010, Managing Director Mike Addenbrooke�s intrepid PA Clare Hawley, and Client Services Director Clive Wickenden will be climbing Africa�s highest mountain, Mount Kilimanjaro, in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support.

Case Law Update

Jul 2009 Mark Riordan

Foster Wheeler v Hanley

Proposals on the way forward for compensation from Equitable Life

Jul 2009 Amy Roberts

Further to the Government�s response earlier this year to the Parliamentary Ombudsman�s findings in 2008 (see February 2009�s Pensions Express), a paper has been published by an independent adviser to HM Treasury, Sir John Chadwick, which sets out proposals for setting up a compensation framework to benefit those affected by the collapse of Equitable Life.