The Palacios decision follows another high - profile age discrimination decision — a UK employment tribunal recently decided in Bloxham v Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer (July 2007 Central London Employment Tribunal) that City law firm Freshfields could justify its decision to
re-organise pension arrangements to the detriment of some older partners (see NLJ, 2 November 2007, pp 1526 — 27).