Piers Feltham secured a remarkable victory for his client Mr Jossa before the Pensions Ombudsman and then on appeal in the High Court.

Mr Jossa had defrauded the London Borough of Enfield of £0.5m before he was made redundant. After his fraud was discovered Enfield sought to set off his unrecovered debt to it for the fraud against his pension under r.74 of the Local Government Pension Scheme Administration Regulations 2008, although this provides for set off where an employee has left employment in consequence of negligence, fraud or crime, on the basis that an employee can be no better off for having successfully concealed his fraud.