26 July 2007
The Court of Appeal hearing in the Government's appeal against a
High Court decision which ruled it was wrong to reject the decision
of Parliamentary Ombudsman, Ann Abraham, in the pension's security
case, has opened.
Last year, Ann Abraham recommended that the Government should
compensate victims who had lost their pensions when their schemes
collapsed. However, the Government claimed it was not
responsible.
Last February, a High Court judge upheld the Ombudsman's
decision, but also found that the Government's alleged
maladministration had not caused the injustice.
