Deborah Shumate

Senior Associate

Deborah is a Senior Associate in Trowers & Hamlins' Employment and Pensions department, which she joined in January 2018.

Deborah advises employers and trustees in relation to contentious and non-contentious pensions matters. Her recent experience includes advising employing bodies (including ALMOs and Schedule Bodies) on interpreting and applying the provisions of the regulations governing the LGPS, negotiating statutory conversions for employer bodies and guiding both the authorities, funds and employing bodies through this obscure legislative process. Deborah is a member of the APL.

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02 September 2025 | Author: Martin McFall, Deborah Shumate & Angela Alvey

Virgin Media clarified - charities and housing associations not out of the Wood as yet!  

The hotly anticipated (well amongst pension lawyers) revisions to the Pension Schemes Bill have landed! Key amongst those revisions is the new clause intended to retrospectively validate past alterations to salary-related contracted out occupational pension schemes following the decision of the Court of Appeal in Virgin Media Ltd v NTL Pension Trustees.

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