true and fair view - opinions
by
Roderick Ramage, solicitor, www.law-office.co.uk
referred
to in an article published in New Law Journal on 27 October 2017
The opinions of counsel listed below are,
so far as I know, all the opinions written in the public debate accounting
standards and the meaning of true and fair.
1983 09 13 Leonard
Hoffman QC and Mary Arden
1984 03 20 Leonard
Hoffman QC and Mary Arden supplementary
1993 04 21 Mary Arden CQ
2008 04 21 Martin Moore
QC
2013 03 -- George
Bompas QC
2013 10 08 Martin Moore
QC
2015 08 14 George Bompas QC
and
the
letter of 31 August 2015 from the Local Government Pension Fund Forum to
the IFRS Working Group of the European Parliament
The 2013 opinion of Martin Moore QC is
the only legal opinion about “true and fair” now available on the Financial
Reporting Council’s website: see the link below. The earlier opinions, from 1983 to 1993, are
no longer there. George Bompas’ 2015
opinion was sent with the letter of 31 August 2015. It was his 2013 opinion that prompted the FRC
to obtain Mr Moore’s 2013 opinion. I
have concentrated in my article on the 1983 Hoffman/Arden opinion, because it
is their interpretation of “true and fair” in that opinion on which Mr Moore
relies in paragraph 75 of his 2013 opinion.
https://frc.org.uk/accountants/accounting-and-reporting-policy/true-and-fair-concept
(accessed on 21/10/17)
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