summer is icumen in and suchlike stuff

[liadnan]

I cut off work early for the sake of an hour and a half's "continuing professional development" (4 hours down quite a few more to go), which was quite interesting to me, but almost certainly dull if not incomprehensible to almost all of you: about challenging trustees' decisions if anyone cares even that much.

Ah, but it's at this time of year I remember precisely why I expend a quite horrendous proportion of my income to live in a shoebox in Primrose Hill rather than a smaller amount for a larger flat almost anywhere else. It's almost silent outside, apart from the birds, the window's open and the air smells almost clean.

Also I've opened a bottle of retsina. Sadly, being in a good mood, I've run out of things to say, so I shan't say them.

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[clanwilliam.livejournal.com]

BTW, what are you doing on Saturday?

[liadnan]

All a bit up in the air. Trying to get out of a promise to go and see parents.

[ailbhe]

I have the most beautiful baby in the WHOLE WORLD EVAR and she needs a doctor, a lawyer or an indian chief to help her get a passport...

[liadnan]

I know, I know, and I really want to come and see her. But the next three weekends are Not Looking Good.... I will see what I can do though.

Or hope someone gives me a case in Reading County Court.

[nicnac.livejournal.com]

"about challenging trustees' decisions if anyone cares even that much."

With regard to investment portfolios? V tricky for the trustees, especially with regard to pensions.

[liadnan]

More generally. I think investment decisions you'd have to show the decision was manifestly incompetent.

All kinds of trusts: family, pensions, etc etc. Take Edge v. Pensions Ombudsman. Board of Trustees of a pension fund, which is obliged to be composed largely of serving employees, makes a decision on an actuarial surplus that benefits the serving employees in preference to retired and former employees. Can the Pensions Ombudsman strike it down as unfair to the retired and former employees given the conflict of interest of the board? No, says the Court of Appeal: their conflict of interest is built into the trust and so long as they "take into account relevant matters and ignore irrelevant matters" that's fine. Also about how to challenge trustees decisions given the serious limitations on the information to which the beneficiaries are entitled about why those decisions were made (Re: Londonderry)

[fairymelusine.livejournal.com]

now that we've managed to join the 21st century and gotten internet access a chez vous, I am hereby requiring a post AFTER the retsina.

i mean, it just ain't livejournal without a little bit of drunkenfoolmaking

(well, it just ain't MY livejournal without it. but make me feel less alone, won't you?)

[liadnan]

I'm sure it will happen in time.

a silence is gold,

[nikandra.livejournal.com]

sort of thing, then?

but it's good that summer is here. :)

Try not to drink all the retsina. Sometimes it can be nasty. What is it? Kourtakis?

Re: a silence is gold,

[liadnan]

Kourtakis indeed. Rare to find anything else here, in my experience, Nationalised, innit? Or was.