In a first case of its kind an accountant is being prosecuted for deliberately providing false information to The Pensions Regulator that the employer he was working for had put staff at a London cafe into a workplace pension.

We are coming up to 12 years since the introduction of pension simplification and although it seemed at the time not to solve or simplify much I would go back to that day in a heartbeat.

The high court has ordered a group of pension scammers repay £13.7m to the victims of their scams. This is the first ruling of this type and should hopefully strike fear into scammers, although I suspect those who conduct these types of scams still believe they will get away with it.