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Andrew Allen KC KC
Work Department
Employment and Discrimination
Position
Barrister specialising in Employment & Discrimination.
Career
Andrew Allen QC was called to the bar in 1995 and took silk in 2020.
Andrew Allen QC has a successful employment and discrimination practice encompassing TUPE, contractual disputes, discrimination – including within partnerships, equal pay, restrictive covenants, unfair dismissal, redundancy, working time, minimum wage, breach of contract, parental and carer’s rights, remuneration and bonuses. He has significant experience of professional negligence claims relating to providers of legal services, trade unions and other employment advisers.
Andrew appears in employment, discrimination and other civil matters in the ET, EAT, County Court, High Court and Court of Appeal as well as in internal and professional disciplinary and regulatory disputes. He has appeared in the employment tribunals in England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland.
His clients include national and international corporations, Transport for London, various NHS Trusts, Housing Associations and private individuals. Andrew has advised and represented a number of solicitors, barristers and sets of chambers in employment and discrimination complaints.
Andrew has been sitting as a fee paid Employment Judge since 2011. He was assigned as a fee paid Immigration Judge in 2017 and he was appointed as a Recorder in the Crown Court in 2018. Andrew was appointed to the Attorney General’s A Panel of Junior Counsel to the Crown in 2017.
Andrew is the co-author of Employment Law and the Human Rights Act 1998 and writes the chapters on Qualification and Compensation for Unfair Dismissal in Tolley’s Employment Law Loose-leaf.
Expert Witness in Islamic & Middle Eastern Law
Andrew has advised as an expert witness in the courts of England and Wales in a number of cases involving the laws of Pakistan, Bangladesh, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Yemen, Oman, Morocco, Tunisia, Iran, Iraq, Syria and Libya. The subject matters ranged from laws regulating banking in Islam to questions relating to adoption, abortion, marriage, divorce, and inheritance.
Andrew has an LLM in Islamic and Middle Eastern Law from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London and was Deputy Director of the Centre of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law at the University of London 1996-1999.
Notable cases include: Hackney LBC v JC Family Division [2015] EWHC 742 (Fam) and Borg v El-Zubaidy [2017] EWFC 58.
Memberships
- Industrial Law Society
- Fee Paid Employment Judge
- Recorder
- Employment Law Bar Association
- Employment Lawyers Association
- Discrimination Law Association
- Industrial Law Society
Education
Methodist College, Belfast; Christ’s College, Cambridge (1992 BA); School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (1994 LLM) called to Bar 1995, Inner Temple.
Leisure
Urban pursuits.
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Employment
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 3Andrew Allen KC – Outer Temple Chambers ‘Andrew is an incredibly charming and persuasive barrister.’
Outer Temple Chambers is ‘very strong for employment‘. Members of the set continue to act in high-profile, complex equal pay claims, whistleblowing claims, discrimination matters and pensions cases, and the group reports an increase in internal investigations. The ‘excellent‘ Andrew Short KC continues to be kept busy handling complex multi-party equal pay claims. Andrew Allen KC and Alex Line successfully represented the Ministry of Justice and Lord Chancellor before the Employment Tribunal in relation to allegations of part-time worker discrimination brought by salaried Circuit Judges who used to sit as recorders who were appointed as Circuit Judge in April 1995 onwards, alleging that the Judicial Pensions and Retirement Act 1993 scheme’s terms were less favourable than the Judicial Pensions Act 1981’s scheme, and that their sittings as recorders should be compensated in terms of pension entitlement. In 2023 Martina Murphy joined the team, and Emily Gordon-Walker was appointed a full-time Employment Judge.