Motion
- Motion title
- Legal action against the USS trustees
- Session
- 2019-2020
- Meeting link
- Special HE sector conference (USS)
- Meeting date
- 6 December 2019
- Status
- Passed
- Motion
- HE1
- Motion text
The activist group Academics for Pension Justice have passed to UCU a legal opinion prepared by a QC specializing in pensions law stating that “there are good grounds to take this matter to court based on breach of trust”.
Conference thanks Academics for Pension Justice for the very many hours they committed to assembling the legal brief and for passing the resulting opinion to UCU.
Conference calls on NEC to:
1. Consider the merits of launching legal action as outlined in the legal opinion and report to members by the end of April 2020.
2. Investigate using crowdfunding to fully or partially fund the legal action.
3. Publish the legal opinion as soon as reasonably possible.
- Proposing body
- University of Dundee
- Amended
- No
- Allocated to
- Higher education committee (HEC)
- Notes
Administrative info
- Listing reference
- 2019/H/12-06/002/HE1