This annual revaluation means that someone whose salary rises substantially above inflation over time, typically through promotion, will not see the full benefit reflected in their pensions as would have been the case in a final salary scheme.
Legal experts contacted by CNN have said, based on recent precedent, that it could take years for the courts to reach any final decision in the civil case.
The court set Feb. 27 for final arguments in the case and could make a ruling on that date or soon after.
It will now be up to the High Court in London to make the final ruling on the case.
The decision is subject to review by the U.S. International Trade Commission, and a final ITC decision in the case is due in July.
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The final case pending I wrote about in my July 14 blog primarily depends on the evidence in this case.
The Winklevoss twins have lost what may be their final appeal in the ongoing Facebook court case.
The Disrtict Court decision this month is not the final word in this case.
"The agency has filed a final report in the court for closure of the case on grounds of insufficient evidence, " a CBI spokesperson said.
Once again, the story hinges on a couple who know each other for real only in the final minute in this case, Joe Fox, who owns a chain of large bookstores, and Kathleen Kelly, who runs one small bookstore and finds herself put out of business.
"The CWS now recommends that the uncle takes over care of the two Indian children in the child welfare case and a Stavanger District Court will make the final decision on 17 April, " the agency's communication adviser Thomas Bore Olsen said in a statement on Thursday evening.
The preliminary HSBC China Manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index fell to 48.1 in June compared with a final reading of 48.4 in May, strengthening the case for further policy steps aimed at boosting China's growth.
In final arguments Wednesday, the day the case went to the jury, the prosecutor called McDougal a "con woman" who manipulated her employer in order to steal her money.
It could be years before a final decision is reached in the Knox case, and undoubtedly Knox's legal team would fight extradition on every level if her conviction is upheld.
The original tribunal found that the player's level of Salbutamol was 20 times higher in the sample collected after the Toulouse game than was the case after the quarter-final tie against Leicester.
Wednesday's plea is the latest twist in the case of a young trader whose career went off track in the final days of 2007, just as the securities industry was bracing for the looming crisis.
He says that in this case electophysiologists should be making the final determination if the patient needs the device.
The High Court is hearing final legal arguments against extradition on Thursday morning, with a judgement in the case expected on Friday.
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The state bureau said it has taken all witness statements and its initial investigation is complete, but the bureau's case will remain open until the final autopsy and evidence is analyzed in the crime lab, Helm said.
The second case could deliver a final ruling on an ongoing legal wrangle over a gay marriage ban in the state of California, a law known as Proposition 8.
Equally, it is a little specious to rely upon the fact that the constitution is reserved in order to build a case for a final UK-led referendum.
After a series of tense meetings over the last three years, sometimes over crispy Dutch pastries, other times in the sparse environs of a boardroom, Microsoft Chief Executive SteveBallmerSteve Ballmer and European Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes had what was probably their final conversation about the EU's Microsoft antitrust case in the early hours of Monday morning -- by telephone.
He has been found guilty of insider trading, though in Italy no conviction is definitive until confirmed by the final appeals court, which is yet to happen in Mr Gnutti's case.
In the home he shares with his girlfriend, an aspiring opera singer, he pieced together 12 fall menswear runway looks -- eight for the semifinal and four more in case he advanced to Saturday night's final.
The U's faithful will be hoping it is a case of second time lucky after missing out in the play-off final under Quinn last year.
In this case the fatty acids would have 18-30 carbon atoms, and the final stage of the synthetic pathway would clip off the oxygen atoms to create pure hydrocarbons.
As the hours evaporated, Microsoft chairman BILL GATES asked for a final session in which to plead his case for allowing Windows 98 to be marketed without any Federal Government objections.
Whatever the final outcome of this case, Microsoft has always felt that stringing things out was in its best interests, allowing the firm to push ahead with its business strategy untrammelled for as long as possible: the freedom to innovate, as it would say, the freedom to intimidate, retort its critics.
By the rituals of Wall Street deal making, a buyer's first offer is almost never the final price agreed to in a transaction -- although Mr. Murdoch's first offer in this case represented an unusually generous premium.
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