Akua Reindorf KC

Employment, discrimination, human rights.

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.

Discrimination Law Association; Employment Lawyers Association; Industrial Law Society; Council of Employment Judges; Association of Women Judges.

Keen amateur bird photographer.