Male officers who have retired since 8 April 1976 - the date when European laws applied in national courts - are also being

Male officers who have retired since 8 April 1976 - the date when European laws applied in national courts - are also being urged to lodge complaints.However, it is probable that if there is any element of retrospection in the European Court's decision it will go back only to 17 May 1990, when the Barber pensions equality case was decided.Brian Wilson, an associate partner at the actuaries Bacon & Woodrow, said he was surprised that only male police officers had lodged complaints. But recently I thought I was going to be thrust into the scruffy category. ON THE flight from London to Miami last week there was not a spare seat to be had on the entire aircraft. They were as varied a selection as you could hope for - typical of India only in their diversity. Also look out for Barry James, a Beadle Dickens would have been proud of.'He saw how cultured men behave / He never forgot and he never forgave.' Sondheim's chorus applies equally to Mr Calder's Shylock. This all took place in the era when a husband was responsible for his wife's tax affairs.

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