Jason Elliott was called to the Bar of Northern Ireland in 2013 and is the Associate Head of School of Law at Ulster University. As a practising barrister, he has developed a largely civil practice representing individuals, companies and public bodies in litigation. This covers a wide range of areas including personal injuries, wills and employment law. In terms of employment law, he has represented both applicants and respondents in the Industrial Tribunal. At Ulster University, Jason lectures extensively on the civil areas of practise such as Equity and Trusts and delivers employment law lectures for both undergraduate and postgraduate students.
This case involved challenges to transitional provisions established as part of the changes to public sector pensions after the Hutton Report of 2011. The cases related not only to the Firefighters’ Pension Scheme but also other public bodies, such as the Judicial Pensions Scheme. The arguments raised by the claimants centred upon the fact that older workers received ‘tapered protection’ yet the younger workers were automatically transferred to the new pension schemes.
This had originally been before the EAT in 2018 (Case Review on that decision here.)
At that point the EAT upheld that the transitional provisions pursued legitimate aims in protecting those closest to the standard pension age. However, there was a finding that the ET
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