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Sheena Sood

Senior Partner

Sheena has over 20 years experience advising clients on a diverse range of professional negligence claims and contractual disputes, advising contractors, engineers, architects, health and safety professionals and surveyors.

Sheena has advised and represented numerous clients and their insurers in relation to civil claims both advancing claims for construction industry clients through the most effective means and defending negligence claims brought against them; conducting early risk assessments for clients to understand the merits of their position and achieve results which takes into account those risks and the need for a proportionate approach to costs. Her work is across all sectors of the construction industry and she has a thorough understanding of the issues of importance.

Her caseload usually involves an insurance element and as such, she regularly advises on complex insurance coverage issues.

Sheena has also advised and represented numerous clients in health and safety matters in the construction and related industries, whether arising from fatalities and accidents on site or involving broader design issues.

Sheena is admitted to practice in Ireland and also admitted in Northern Ireland. She has represented insurers and insureds in these jurisdictions in the fields of construction professional negligence and health and safety.

Sheena is a regular contributing author to Building and Infrastructure Intelligence Magazine.

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Education:

Brunel University LLB

Admitted:

England and Wales 1992 Ireland 2002 Northern Ireland 2006

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  • Professional indemnity
  • Disputes
  • International arbitration
  • Health and safety

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Sheena Sood is similarly gifted and gets right across her brief to ensure she is completely conversant with the dispute. She brings a highly rational brain to the table that helps clients understand their position clearlyLegal 500 UK 2022 - Contentious Construction
Joanna Lewis and Sheena Sood are enormously hard working, diligent and effective partners who follow the case through for their clients. They are renowned for their dedication to these types of case and have built up a substantial body of experience in this field. There is no fact in a case that Joanna Lewis is unaware ofLegal 500 UK 2023 - Health and Safety
Sheena combines tactical thinking, implementation of efficient processes, an attention to detail and in-depth knowledge of the construction industry to provide the highest level of effective client serviceChambers UK 2023 - Contentious Construction
She is very technically and commercially sound and provides good, practical advice.Chambers UK 2023 - Contentious Construction

Articles by this Author

  • Let’s do this together – Collaborative Contracting

    March 2023
    Antony Smith, Sheena Sood, Will Buckby and Kevin Henderson
  • The Year Ahead in Construction – 2023

    January 2023
    Sheena Sood
  • KING’S COLLEGE, LONDON AND THE ADJUDICATION SOCIETY’S ANNUAL REPORT ON CONSTRUCTION ADJUDICATION

    November 2022
    Sheena Sood and James Vernon
  • Delivering Excellent Public Works in a Modern Day World: Update to Construction Playbook (September 2022)

    September 2022
    Sheena Sood and James Stretton

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