BackTo60 appeal

The campaign against state pension age changes explained – and what next week’s court case means.

The case will be heard on 21 July at the Court of Appeal in London.

https://inews.co.uk/news/uk/backto60-appeal-state-pension-age-changes-court-case-pensions-explained-waspi-550311

Good news so far!

DWP lawyers lose legal bid to declare #Backto60 pensions case unlawful

Lawyers representing the Department for Work and Pensions have made an unsuccessful attempt to have the judicial review affecting 3.8 million 1950s born women seeking full restitution of their pensions declared unlawful.

The extraordinary move by Sir James Eadie, the Treasury counsel, representing the DWP, was thrown out by the Master of the Rolls, Sir Terence Etherton, at a Court of Appeal hearing last week. He was one of three judges hearing the appeal.

https://www.union-news.co.uk/dwp-lawyers-lose-legal-bid-to-declare-backto60-pensions-case-unlawful/

50 women’s pensions: An extraordinary Judicial Review Appeal hearing
https://davidhencke.com/2020/07/24/50-womens-pensions-an-extraordinary-judicial-review-appeal-hearing/

Hartlepool WASPI women's pension campaigners vow to fight on after appeal court defeat

https://www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk/news/politics/hartlepool-waspi-womens-pension-campaigners-vow-fight-after-appeal-court-defeat-2972277