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PO subject to the conventional limitation periods (Ralph v Arjo Wiggins Ltd)

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Published on: 07 December 2009
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In Ralph v Arjo Wiggins Ltd (The Pensions Ombudsman Intervening), the High Court held that the Pensions Ombudsman has no power to award substantive relief to a complainant whose complaint would have been defeated by a limitation defence had it been brought by action in court.

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