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Andrew Allen

Call date: 1995
Email: Andrew Allen
Areas of Law: Employment & Discrimination, Public Law, Disciplinary & Regulation
Practice summary

Andrew’s employment and discrimination practice encompasses TUPE, discrimination within partnerships, equal pay, restrictive covenants, unfair dismissal, redundancy, working time, minimum wage, breach of contract, parental and carer’s rights, remuneration and bonuses.
 
Andrew appears in employment, discrimination, judicial review 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.


 
Andrew sits as a fee paid Employment Judge.


 
Expert witness in Islamic and Middle Eastern Law

Andrew Allen has advised as an expert witness in the courts of England and Wales in a number of cases involving the laws of Pakistan, Bangladesh, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Oman, Morocco, Tunisia, Iran, and Iraq. The subject matters ranged from laws regulating banking in Islam to questions relating to adoption, abortion, marriage, divorce, and inheritance.


 
Andrew was Deputy Director of the Centre of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law at the University of London 1996-1999. He worked as a Pegasus Scholar at the Law Firm of Chibli Mallat in Beirut Lebanon in 2000-2001. In September 2008, he addressed the 2008 US 10th Circuit Bench and Bar conference on ‘Islamic Law in the UK'. In 2009, Andrew was based in Baghdad, Iraq working in the Global Justice Project Iraq as Deputy Chief of Party.
 
International Practice

Andrew is a senior legal consultant at MEI Law (Lebanon) and a founder member of the Legal Advisory Board (USA).

Publications

  • Co-author: Employment Law and the Human Rights Act 1998
  • Qualification and Compensation for Unfair Dismissal, Tolley’s Employment Law Looseleaf
     
A selection of recent cases
  • Dynamex Friction Ltd v Amicus [2009] ICR 511
  • Kimberley Group Housing v Hambley [2008] ICR 1030
  • Robinson v Tescom [2008] IRLR 408
  • Draper v Mears [2006] IRLR 869
Andrew Allen

What his clients say
"Excellent lawyer, very amiable and approachable but also very professional and to the point."

"I have the highest regard for Andrew Allen's legal knowledge and skills. He has an excellent rapport with clients, a good knowledge of the law and a very practical and helpful approach to working with solicitors and their clients. Andrew goes, where necessary, well beyond what other counsel are willing to do, often working out of hours, in pressured situations. His advocacy is of the highest standard."

“is a brilliant cross-examiner.” Allen is fully informed on a wide range of employment issues
Employment, Chambers and Partners 2010

Appointments & memberships:

  • Fee Paid Employment Judge
  • Employment Law Bar Association
  • Employment Lawyers Association
  • Discrimination Law Association
  • Industrial Law Society