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Govt publishes judges’ reformed pension scheme and McCloud remedy consultation responses


By Jack Gray

The government has published its responses to consultations on reforming the judicial pension scheme and how age discrimination, as identified in the McCloud ruling, will be addressed.

It confirmed that, unlike the rest of the public sector, judges affected by McCloud will participate in an ‘options exercise’ in 2022, rather than making a deferred choice


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