Akua Reindorf, KC
Akua Reindorf was called to the Bar in 1999 and practices at Cloisters Chambers, specialising in employment, discrimination and human rights law. She is a Commissioner of the Equality and Human Rights Commission and a fee paid Employment Judge. In 2022 she was awarded Chambers and Partners’ Employment Junior of the Year and was featured in The Lawyer’s Hot 100. She was appointed King’s Counsel in 2023.
Akua’s practice focuses on complex and protracted litigation and high profile internal investigations. She has particular expertise in the higher education and public sectors. Her substantial experience of investigatory work includes the “Reindorf Report” for the University of Essex, hailed as a “turning point” in the debate on sex and gender, trans rights and cancel culture in universities.
In her litigation practice Akua provides advice and representation in challenging, hard-fought discrimination, harassment and whistleblowing cases. She obtained a landmark judgment for Kamalammal Puthenveettil, a migrant domestic worker, which resulted in the government announcing the repeal of the “family worker exemption” in the national minimum wage legislation. In her Respondent practice Akua receives repeat instructions from Russell Group universities such as Cambridge, Warwick and LSE, as well as a variety of commercial and public sector organisations.
Outside the employment field Akua appeared for the LGB Alliance in an unprecedented challenge to their charitable status brought by Mermaids. She also acted for Julie Bindel in her proposed judicial review of Nottingham City Council’s decision to stop her from giving a public talk on their premises because of her gender critical beliefs.