Saul Margo

Practice Areas

Saul specialises in pensions, employment and professional negligence claims relating to pension schemes. His pensions practice encompasses both pure pensions litigation and advisory work with his litigation experience including Part 8, professional negligence and rectification claims. Saul recently acted for the successful Representative Beneficiary in the landmark case concerning the scope of the amendment power in the BBC Pension Scheme. 

Additionally, Saul is in demand for his specialist knowledge of cross-over pensions and employment work having been instructed in the litigation relating to the judges pensions scheme, the police pension scheme, sexual orientation discrimination claims relating to the Teachers’ pension scheme and in the leading case relating to discrimination arising from the provision ill-health retirement benefits.

His employment work covers the full range of employment disputes including the private sector equal pay litigation and complex discrimination claims. He appears regularly in the appellate courts and sits part-time as an Employment Judge.

Saul is highly ranked for pensions and employment in legal directories, which describe him as: “Technically excellent, combined with preparation that leaves no point of evidence or legal argument unturned” and an “excellent senior junior.” able to “master the details of a large and complex case.”  

Career

Year of Call: 2005

First in Philosophy (Cambridge)

MSc in Philosophy and Politics (LSE)

Denning Scholar (Lincoln’s Inn)

Publications

Association of Pension Lawyers

Employment Lawyers Association

Employment Law Bar Association

Industrial Law Society

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