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  • Congress acts while MPs pussyfoot around

    Carl Gardner
    March 31, 2009

    Last week the House of Representatives in Washington passed a Bill taxing at about 90% the bonuses received by employees of firms given $5 Billion or more in taxpayer support. Here’s a Washington Post story […]

    Tags: article 1 protocol 1, banking, human rights, legislation, pensions
  • Grabbing Sir Fred Goodwin’s pension

    Carl Gardner
    March 3, 2009

    A lot’s being written and said on the airwaves this week about how lawyers are supposedly crawling over Sir Fred Goodwin’s exceedingly generous pension from RBS. Well, I’ll leave it to the pensions experts to speculate about whether his […]

    Tags: article 1 protocol 1, banking, human rights, legislation, pensions
  • Case C-267/06 Tadao Maruko: discrimination against civil partners

    Carl Gardner
    April 8, 2008

    An interesting post at EU Law Blog about last week’s ECJ judgment in this case, about survivors’ pension and sexuality discrimination. It’s amazing, I always think, how fundamental EC discrimination law – human rights law, you might call […]

    Tags: discrimination, eu law, pensions, sexual orientation
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