Akua Reindorf KC
barrister, Cloisters Chambers

Akua Reindorf KC is a barrister at Cloisters Chambers specialising in employment, discrimination and human rights law. She is instructed in high profile trials and investigations involving polarising and contested identity and equality issues, serious harassment and freedom of speech and belief.

Recent work includes representing Allison Bailey in the first successful case against a service provider for gender critical belief discrimination and acting for Sex Matters in their judicial review of the British Transport Police’s strip-searching policy. In 2021 Akua wrote the ‘Reindorf Report’ for the University of Essex, which was widely reported as a landmark contribution to the debate on sex and gender. She has particular expertise in the higher education sector and works at the interface between university governance and regulation, duties in equality law, public sector duties, academic freedom and fundamental rights.

Akua is a visiting senior fellow at LSE Law School, where she focusses on the law of academic freedom and freedom of speech. She is a former commissioner of the Equality and Human Rights Commission. She speaks in a personal capacity.

Follow Akua on X: @akuareindorf

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