Member

Moving on to extended deadlines, a number of deadlines are being extended for member elections to FPJPS. FPJPS provides a judicial pension for judges with eligible fee-paid service. Following the O’Brien 2 judgment, FPJPS was amended by way of the 2023 FPJPS amendments to take into account eligible service prior to 7 April 2000, in order to mirror pension entitlements for the salaried judiciary. The 2023 FPJPS amendments set deadlines by which eligible members must make an election concerning their FPJPS pension provisions and purchase additional pension benefits that they were entitled to following the O’Brien 2 judgment. We are now extending these deadlines to allow more time for the scheme to engage with eligible members, in order to give members the time and information needed to make an informed choice.