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.