Andrew Allen KC 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.
Andrew represents both employers and employees across the full spectrum of employment law issues. He is regularly in the Employment tribunal, Employment Appeal Tribunal and Court of Appeal.
Antuzis & Others v DJ Houghton Catching Services Ltd & others [2019] EWHC 843 (QB), High Court
A leading authority on the interaction between a Director’s personal liability and his/her duties under the Companies Act 2006
Grainger v North East London NHS Foundation Trust [2017] I.R.L.R. 981, High Court
Interpretation of NHS contracts
Ishola v Transport for London [2020] EWCA Civ 112
Jesudason v Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust [2020] EWCA Civ 73
The Mayor & Burgesses of the London Borough of Lambeth v Agoreyo [2019] EWCA Civ 322
Ahir v British Airways Plc [2017] EWCA Civ 1392
Strike out of discrimination claims
Deakin v Kuehne & Nagel Drinks Logistics Ltd [2012] I.R.L.R. 513, Court of Appeal
Working time, interpretation of contracts
Dynamex Friction Ltd v Amicus [2009] ICR 511, Court of Appeal
Circumvention of TUPE, administrator as unwitting tool
Park Chinois Limited v Ozkara & others [2019] UKEAT 0224/18/DA, EAT
Canning v National Institute for Health and Care Excellence [2019] UKEAT/0241/18, EAT
Lofty v Hamis [2018] IRLR 512, EAT
Definition of cancer for the purposes of disability discrimination
Kansal v Tullett Prebon UKEAT/0147/16/DM, EAT
Race discrimination – drawing of inferences
Gareddu v London Underground Ltd [2017] IRLR 404, EAT
Indirect religious discrimination – manifestation of belief
Rowe v London Underground Ltd UKEAT/0125/16/JOJ, EAT
Whether injury to feelings must be awarded as a remedy in health safety cases
Lamb v The Business Academy Bexley UKEAT/0226/15/JOJ, EAT
Disability discrimination – reasonable adjustments
Kibirango v Barclays Bank Plc UKEAT/0234/14/JOJ, EAT
Direct race discrimination – adequacy of reasons
Higgins v Home Office [2015] I.C.R. D19, EAT
Time limits, early rejection of claim forms
Mihaj v Sodexho Ltd [2014] I.C.R. D25, EAT
Interim relief, trade union activities
Meter U Ltd v Ackroyd [2012] I.C.R. 834, EAT
TUPE – sham transactions
Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust v Browne [2012] Eq. L.R. 318, EAT
Race discrimination – construction of a hypothetical comparator
Kimberley Group Housing v Hambley [2008] ICR 1030, EAT
TUPE, multiple respondents and apportionment of liabilities
Robinson v Tescom Corporation [2008] IRLR 408, EAT
Unfair dismissal – amendment to terms and conditions
Draper v Mears [2006] IRLR 869, EAT
Unfair dismissal – sufficiency of reasons
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