Anna Dannreuther

Call 2019

"A very talented junior and an absolute pleasure to work with."

Chambers UK 2026

Expertise

Anna is acting in various high-profile group litigation claims, including:

  • Emissions litigation – acting on claims against multiple vehicle manufacturers, finance companies and car dealerships in claims related to the so-called Dieselgate scandal. The claims allege that vehicles contain unlawful defeat devices within the meaning of Article 5(2) of EC Regulation 2007/715.
  • Uber Drivers – representing over one thousand Uber Drivers in their claims for national minimum wage and holiday pay.

Anna has advised on various commercial disputes, including partnership, restraint of trade, and contractual disputes.

While training as a solicitor at an international law firm in London, she worked on a range of commercial disputes (including international arbitrations), contentious insolvency, banking, and planning and environment law cases. These covered the oil and gas, financial, and hospitality sectors. Anna was seconded to Goldman Sachs for six months where she gained experience in their private lending team.

Anna represents claimants and respondents at all stages in proceedings including preliminary hearings, judicial mediations, final hearings, and appeals.

She appeared (led) in the Court of Appeal in the first appellate case concerning health and safety dismissals in the Covid-19 era.

Recent instructions include:

  • Junior counsel in group litigation representing more than one thousand Uber drivers claiming holiday pay and national minimum wage.
  • Counsel for successful claimant in complex two-week Employment Tribunal proceedings involving claims of unfair dismissal, direct discrimination, whistleblowing, and victimisation.
  • Representing successful claimant in a two-day trial in an unfair constructive dismissal claim concerning the respondent’s imposition of a 10% pay cut.
  • Representing two whistleblowing van drivers who were successful in establishing (i) worker status (ii) the respondent’s liability for automatically unfair dismissal, and (iii) costs of over £6,000 for the respondent’s unreasonable conduct.
  • Representing the respondent school in a 2-week trial concerning alleged disability discrimination, sexual harassment, and unfair dismissal.

Anna is regularly instructed to draft statements of case and has acted and advised in cases involving unfair dismissal, discrimination, and equal pay claims, amongst others.

Judicial Review:
Anna acted as junior counsel on R (Dolan) v Secretary of State for Health and Social Care [2020] EWHC 3857 (Admin), a judicial review challenging the lawfulness of the lockdown regulations imposed in England as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. Anna regularly acts for and advises local authorities regarding their duties under the Children Act 1989, challenges to care packages and adult social care charging policies, amongst others.

Anna was a Public Law Tutor at Queen Mary University of London School of Law for the academic year 2021 – 2022.

Court of Protection:
Anna has a busy Court of Protection practice. She regularly acts in s.21A MCA challenges and in health and welfare, at both interim and final hearings. She has experience of cases concerning deprivation of liberty, residence, social and health care, and appointing deputies, amongst others. She regularly acts for local authorities and the Official Solicitor.

Human rights & pro bono:
Anna regularly advises on human rights issues. Before coming to the bar, Anna was a founding volunteer and Co-Editor-in-Chief of human rights information website RightsInfo (now EachOther), created by barrister Adam Wagner.

Anna takes on pro bono work, and is particularly keen to do so in her areas of interest.

She is a member of Advocate (the bar’s pro bono charity).

Privacy Policy

Anna Dannreuther Privacy Policy

My contact details:

ICO Reg No: ZA785103
Address: 2 Temple Gardens, London, EC4Y 9AY
Email: clerks@2tg.co.uk
Phone: +44 (0)20 7822 1200

The type of personal information I collect

To enable me to provide you with legal advice and representation in courts, tribunals, arbitrations and mediations, I currently collect and process the following personal information:

Personal identifiers, contacts and characteristics (for example, name, date of birth and contact details), bank and financial details, your background and circumstance and education.

Other personal data relevant to, or included in instructions to provide legal services, including data specific to the instructions in question and data included in documents provided to me as part of instructions or otherwise.

Such information may include personal information relating to family members, associates, agents, employees, shareholders or beneficial owners. By providing such personal information to me, you automatically confirm that you are authorised to do so. It is not reasonably practicable for me to provide the information set out in this Privacy Notice to those individuals. Accordingly, where appropriate, you are responsible for providing this information to any such individuals.

Where necessary, I may also need to process Special Category data about you including

  • racial or ethnic origin;
  • personal data revealing political opinions;
  • personal data revealing religious or philosophical beliefs;
  • personal data revealing trade union membership;
  • genetic data;
  • biometric data (where used for identification purposes);
  • data concerning health;
  • data concerning a person’s sex life; and
  • data concerning a person’s sexual orientation.

How I get the personal information and why I have it

Most of the personal information that I process is provided to me directly by you or via the professional you have instructed such as a solicitor or consultant or other professional adviser who instructs me on your behalf to provide legal services.

I use the information that you have given me in order to

  • provide legal services to you, my client, including the provision of legal advice and
  • representation in courts, tribunals, arbitrations, and mediations
  • keep accounting records and carry out office administration
  • take or defend legal or regulatory proceedings or to exercise a lien
  • respond to potential complaints or make complaints
  • check for potential conflicts of interest in relation to future potential cases
  • promote and market my services
  • carry out anti-money laundering and terrorist financing checks
  • train other barristers and pupils, and when providing work-shadowing opportunities
  • publish legal judgments and decisions of courts and tribunals as required or permitted by law.

I may share this information with

  • other professional advisers such as other legal professionals and consultant experts and other witnesses
  • courts and tribunals
  • the staff in my Chambers
  • prosecution authorities
  • pupils and mini pupils
  • lay clients
  • family and associates of the person whose personal information I am processing
  • in the event of complaints, the Head of Chambers, other individuals nominated by Chambers who deal with complaints, the Bar Standards Board, and the Legal Ombudsman
  • other regulatory authorities
  • current, past or prospective employers
  • education and examining bodies
  • business associates, professional advisers and trade bodies, e.g. the Bar Council
  • professional indemnity insurers or brokers
  • the general public in relation to the publication of legal judgments and decisions of courts and tribunals
  • If you have engaged other professional advisers to instruct me on your behalf on the matters on which I am providing legal services to you, I shall assume that I may disclose your personal information to them unless you tell me otherwise.
  • I may be required to provide your information to regulators, such as the Bar Standards Board, the Financial Conduct Authority or the Information Commissioner’s Office. In the case of the Information Commissioner’s Office, there is a risk that your information may lawfully be disclosed by them for the purpose of any other civil or criminal proceedings, without my consent or yours, which includes privileged information.
  • I may also be required to disclose your information to the police or intelligence services, where, acting in good faith, I consider it required and permitted by law.

Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the lawful basis I rely on for processing this information is

  • The processing is necessary for a contract I have with you, or because you have asked me to take specific steps before entering into a contract.
  • You are able to remove your consent at any time. You can do this by contacting me.
  • It may be necessary for me to share your personal data to comply with legal obligations to, for example, HMRC.

How I store your personal information

Your information is securely stored in Chambers or at my home. I use reasonable technical and organisational security measures such as password protection and encryption of computer generated data and keeping paper data secure to prevent personal information from being accidentally lost or destroyed, or used or accessed in an unauthorised way.

In this connection, Chambers, as data processor, acting on my behalf, will only process your personal data on my instructions and is subject to a duty of confidentiality.

The data will be held in line with any regulatory obligations and generally be kept for 6 years but may be 12 years, or longer where, for example, the case includes information relating to a minor, from the date of completion of instructions. At this point any further retention will be reviewed and the data will be marked for deletion or marked for retention for a further period.

All data will be securely deleted or securely shredded after this time without reference to you. I will store some of your information which I need to carry out conflict checks for the rest of my career. However, this is likely to be limited only to your name and contact details and the name of the case. It will not include any information that is “sensitive information” for GDPR purposes.

Your data protection rights

Under data protection law, you have rights including:

  • Your right of access – You have the right to ask me for copies of your personal information.
  • Your right to rectification – You have the right to ask me to rectify personal information you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask me to complete information you think is incomplete.
  • Your right to erasure – You have the right to ask me to erase your personal information in certain circumstances.
  • Your right to restriction of processing – You have the right to ask me to restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
  • Your right to object to processing – You have the the right to object to the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
  • Your right to data portability – You have the right to ask that I transfer the personal information you gave us to another organisation, or to you, in certain circumstances.
  • You are not required to pay any charge for exercising your rights. If you make a request, I have one month to respond to you. Please contact me at 2 Temple Gardens, London, EC4Y 9AY or clerks@2tg.co.uk if you wish to make a request.

Transfer of your information outside the European Economic Area (EEA)

This privacy notice is of general application and as such it is not possible to state whether it will be necessary to transfer your information out of the EEA. If I do transfer your personal data I will use safeguards to ensure the data is fully protected as required by the UK Data Protection Regulations.

Changes to my Privacy Policy

From time to time, I may need to make chances to my privacy policy. If so, the changes will appear on my entry on the 2TG website.

Marketing

As above, I may share your personal data with Chambers who may in turn use that data to notify you by email, or post about an invitation to seminars and similar events. You may opt out of receiving any such marketing communications at any time by using the “unsubscribe” link in any emails. In relation to how Chambers uses such data, please see Chambers’ privacy policy. Other than sharing personal data with Chambers as described above, I will not share your information with any other third party for marketing purposes.

How to complain

If you have any concerns about my use of your personal information, you can make a complaint to me or to my Senior Clerk, Lee Tyler at 2 Temple Gardens, London, EC4Y 9AY or clerks@2tg.co.uk. You can also complain to the ICO if you are unhappy with how we have used your data.

The ICO’s address:

Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF

Helpline number: 0303 123 1113
ICO website: https://www.ico.org.uk

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“She is brilliant and punches above her weight.”


Chambers UK 2026

“Anna is super proactive and an exemplary hard worker.”


Legal 500 2026

“A star in the making.”


Legal 500 2025

“Anna is excellent, personable and an excellent team player.”


Legal 500 2025

“Anna is very user-friendly, very responsive and good team player."


Chambers UK 2025

“… incredibly bright and always has an eye on the big picture.”


Chambers UK 2025

“… a skilled technical lawyer blessed with great judgement and an appetite for hard work.”


Legal 500 2024

  • August 2023: appointed Junior Counsel to the Crown (C Panel)
  • July 2023: appointed to Employment Lawyers Association’s International Committee
  • May 2022: appointed as UK rapporteur for Journal Mass Claims
  • March 2021: appointed to the Employment Lawyers Association’s Legislative & Policy Committee. As part of this role, she has chaired numerous responses to Government consultations including the Low Pay Commission’s consultation on 2022 National Minimum Wage rate, the Government’s Bill of Rights consultation, and the ICO’s call for views on employment practices.

  • Postgraduate Public Interest Fellowship, Columbia Law School (2018)
  • Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, Columbia Law School (2018)
  • Debbie Phillips Award, Insolvency Law Association (2017)
  • Entrance Scholarship, Columbia Law School (2017)
  • Stan Marsh Scholarship, Association of Law Teachers (2016)
  • First Prize, Junior Lawyers Division Essay Competition, Law Society of England and Wales (2015)
  • Second Prize, Graham Turnbull Human Rights Essay Competition, Law Society of England and Wales (2015)
  • First Prize, European Human Rights Moot Court Competition, European Law Students Association (2014)
  • Lord Haldane Scholarship, Lincoln’s Inn (2012)
  • College Prize for First-Class examination results, Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge (2012)
  • Hunter Senior Scholarship for First Class examination results, Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge (2010)

  • Bar Transfer Test (BPP) (2019)
  • (Columbia Law School) (2018)
  • Legal Practice Course (University of Law) (2014)
  • Graduate Diploma in Law (City University) (2013)
  • BA Modern and Medieval Languages, French & Spanish (University of Cambridge) (2012) (Double First) (converted to MA in 2017)

  • French
  • Spanish

  • Employment Lawyers Association – International Committee Member
  • Court of Protection Bar Association
  • Administrative Law Bar Association

  • 2014 – 2015: Worked in European Court of Human Rights, Court of Justice of the European Union, Inter-American Court of Human Rights
  • 2015 – 2017: Training contract at Berwin Leighton Paisner (now Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner)
  • 2017 – 2018: LLM at Columbia Law School
  • 2018 – 2019: Public Interest Fellow at the Legal Aid Society of New York

“Anna Dannreuther is a very talented junior and an absolute pleasure to work with.” “She is brilliant and punches above her weight.”
Chambers UK 2026

“Anna is super proactive and an exemplary hard worker.”
Legal 500 2026

“Anna is excellent. She is personable and an excellent team player. She is adept at legal research and willing to spend significant time on solving issues. A star in the making.”
Legal 500 2025

“Anna is very user-friendly, very responsive and good team player. Her advocacy is also calm, measured and reasonable – she has a bright future.”
Chambers UK 2025

“Anna will read all of the disclosure and get involved in letter writing and first drafts of pleadings. She is incredibly bright and always has an eye on the big picture.”
Chambers UK 2025

“Anna is a skilled technical lawyer blessed with great judgement and an appetite for hard work.”
Legal 500 2024

“Anna is a very strong barrister. She is really good on the law, has excellent judgement and is very commercial.”
Chambers UK 2024

“The level of service she has provided has been extremely positive. Anna is a pleasure to work with.”
Chambers UK 2024

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