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.
