Poor advice claim rejected
Shore v Sedgwick Financial Services (Court of Appeal - 23 July 2008)
In 1996 the claimant was an employee of Avesta Group, which was taken over by British Steel. The existing occupational pension scheme was to be wound up, although there was an option to take a British
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