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Provided by Akua Reindorf KC
Practice Areas
Employment, discrimination, human rights.
Career
Akua Reindorf is instructed in high profile trials involving significant reputational risk and polarising equality issues. She conducts major internal investigations. She is a leading specialist in the higher education sector.
Akua is a Commissioner of the EHRC and a fee paid Employment Judge. She is the Legal Business Awards' Barrister of the Year 2023 and was Chambers & Partners Employment Junior of the Year 2022. She was named in The Lawyer’s Hot 100 2022.
Recent work includes:
- The University of Essex “Reindorf Report”: hailed as a “turning point” in the debate on sex and gender, trans rights and cancel culture.
- Obtaining a landmark judgment setting aside the “family worker exemption” in the minimum wage legislation, resulting in the repeal of Reg 57 NMWR 2015 which operated as a loophole for slavery.
- Representing LGB Alliance defending the challenge to its charitable status brought by Mermaids.
- Acting for James Esses, a trainee psychotherapist, in his belief discrimination complaint relating to his gender critical views.
- Representing Julie Bindel in JR proceedings against Nottinghamshire County Council (settled).
- Investigating antisemitism complaints about the Twitter activity of academic staff, and reviewing a university’s approach to the IHRA definition of antisemitism.
- Representing a politician who alleges institutional Islamophobia against a national political party.
- Advising the University of Cambridge on its employment policies.
Professional Memberships
Discrimination Law Association; Employment Lawyers Association; Industrial Law Society; Council of Employment Judges; Association of Women Judges.
Personal
Keen amateur bird photographer.
Chambers Review
UK Bar
Akua Reindorf KC works primarily in highly complex discrimination cases, often representing trade unions and individuals before the appellate courts. She also has experience handling dismissal claims. She has gained in prominence following the publication of the Reindorf Report into no-platforming at the University of Essex.
Akua Reindorf KC of Cloisters Chambers brings to bear her specialist expertise in employment and discrimination law to conduct high-profile investigations. She is particularly noted for having produced the Reindorf Report concerning no-platforming in higher education.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Akua is a real thought leader who is making a positive difference to the legal landscape."
"Akua is an outstanding advocate and also a pleasure to work with. She is always across the documents and the detail. She is highly strategic and incredibly clever. She always goes above and beyond."
"Akua is brilliant all round."
"Akua is very easy to work with, approachable and down to earth, and provides very clear and helpful advice. We would have no hesitation in using her again."
"Akua is a real thought leader who is making a positive difference to the legal landscape."
"Akua is an outstanding advocate and also a pleasure to work with. She is always across the documents and the detail. She is highly strategic and incredibly clever. She always goes above and beyond."
"Akua is brilliant all round."
"Akua is very easy to work with, approachable and down to earth, and provides very clear and helpful advice. We would have no hesitation in using her again."
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