Safeway Ltd v Newton & Safeway Pension Trustees Ltd

The pension scheme at issue in the main proceedings was created in the form of a trust by Safeway in 1978. Clause 19 of the Trust Deed governing that pension scheme (‘the amendment clause’) essentially allows that pension scheme, including the value of its benefits, to be amended retroactively, as of the date of a written announcement to the members, by means of a trust deed