The earliest date the state pension can be paid.

On reaching state pension age, a pensioner can defer taking their state pension in exchange for a higher pension or lump sum in the future.

An illustration provided by The Pension Service giving an estimate of what state pension an individual may receive at state pension age.

Reduction in a member's pensionable earnings or his pension to take into account the amount of state pension that he receives. Also known as offset or the LEL offset.

The age from which pensions are normally payable by the state scheme. See: State pension.

Additional state pension that replaced the State Earnings Related Pension Scheme (SERPS) and is paid in addition to the basic state pension.

The state second pension, which replaced the SERPS from 6 April 2002. Also known as the additional state pension. No longer available under the new state pension scheme introduced on 6 April 2016.

Immigration analysis: The recent decision in R (on the application of MK (a child by her litigation friend CAE)) v Secretary of State for the Home Department provides an important clarification of the meaning of statelessness for the purposes of registration for British citizenship. Solange Valdez-Symonds, from the Project for the Registration of Children as British Citizens (PRCBC), and Steve Valdez-Symonds, Amnesty International UK, consider the practical implications of the case for immigration lawyers.

A statutory document setting out a child's Special Educational Needs and the educational and related provision which will meet those needs.

The Welsh Government has published the record of the Plenary held on 16 September 2025, in which the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery, Julie James MS, made an oral statement on the Planning (Wales) Bill and the Planning (Consequential Provisions) (Wales) Bill. The statement confirmed that both Bills are technical consolidation measures intended to simplify and modernise planning law in Wales, improve clarity and bilingual accessibility, and provide a stronger basis for future reform. The Planning (Wales) Bill consolidates existing legislation into a single statute reflecting Welsh institutions, while the accompanying Bill makes consequential repeals and transitional provisions. The Counsel General emphasised that the Bills are not intended to introduce new policy but to provide a clearer, more accessible framework for future legislative development and public engagement, drawing on the Law Commission’s review of planning law in Wales and the direct involvement of its principal author, Dr Charles Mynors, in the drafting process.

TMT analysis: The High Court has issued a preliminary ruling in which it clarified that a statement containing an imputation that someone is mentally ill can be defamatory. The court held that the context in which the statement is made is key in determining whether it is defamatory. It held that where the statement’s purpose is to cause an individual to be shunned through imputing something to that person that is not their fault, such as a mental illness, that was plainly capable of being defamatory.

A statement in open court on settlement of action is an important mechanism for vindication for the claimant in, inter alia, libel proceedings and also for the correction of false and/or defamatory statements.