The Supreme Court has decided that financial support directions issued by the Pensions Regulator to Nortel and Lehman Brothers companies after insolvency proceedings had already started were provable debts. Pension scheme trustees will rank with other unsecured creditors in the priority order. It is a change from the position in the lower courts where the trustees’ claim was given “super priority” status.
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