Kweku Aggrey Orleans

Barrister Profile

Kweku has practised widely across all of Chambers' core areas of law with an emphasis on Employment, Personal Injury, Contract & Commercial matters and Insurance. He acts for both Claimants and Defendants.

In the Employment field, Kweku regularly advises and represents both Claimants and Respondents before employment tribunals, the Employment Appeal Tribunal and the county courts all in matters arising from the employment relationship. His experience encompasses claims for wrongful dismissal, unfair dismissal, all discrimination claims (sex, sexual orientation, race, age, and religious beliefs), claims made under the Minimum Wage Regulations 1998 to claims involving the enforcement of restrictive covenant and anti-competitive behaviour by employers. Kweku successfully represented before the employment tribunal a number of domestic workers seeking to recover the national minimum wage from their employers.

In the personal injury field, Kweku regularly advises on the liability of employers, occupiers and landlords, together with liability disputes arising from road traffic accidents. He is prepared to undertake work on a CFA basis where appropriate.  

Kweku undertakes both advisory and court work arising from contractual disputes based on the express or implied terms of contracts ranging from regulated consumer agreements to larger standard commercial agreements. 

Kweku is fluent in French.

Qualifications

 - King’s College, London (LLB), Universite de Paris I, La Sorbonne (Maitrise En Droit)
 - Universite de Paris I, La Sorbonne (Maitrise En Droit)
 - Kweku was called to the Bar of the Republic of Ghana in 2010

Professional Membership

ELBA (Employment Law Bar Association)
PIBA (Personal Injury Bar Association of England and Wales)
COMBAR (Commercial Bar Association of England and Wales)

Publications

Kweku contributes regularly to the Personal Injury Law Journal.

Interesting Cases

Taylor v HR Go (Sandwell) Limited [2009] (Birmingham Employment Tribunal) An unfair dismissal case involving the dismissal of an employee / director primarily for planning to set up a competing business. The case gave rise to interesting issues as to what amounts to permissible competitive behaviour by an employee / director.
Sujatha v Manwaring (Woburn Place Employment Tribunal [2004]) In that case the tribunal had to decide whether the claimant, a domestic servant  living with her employer's family, fell within Regulation 2(2)(a)(ii) of the National Minimum Wage Regulations 1999.

Examples of recent court and advisory work include:

- Advising on the construction of hire purchase and lease purchase agreements made with a waste refuse company. 
- Advising on the interpretation of the terms of a household contents policy where there had been material non disclosure. 
- Advising on the enforceability of restrictive covenants and anti-competition clauses post employment.
- Advising on the standard terms of a contract for the transportation of goods some of which were stolen and damaged in transit. 
- Advising on the merits for insurance funding purposes of applications before employment tribunals.