Sheena Sood
Sheena has 30 years’ experience advising clients on a diverse range of construction and professional negligence claims advising contractors, engineers, architects, health and safety professionals and other construction disciplines on all manner of contentious and potentially contentious issues.
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 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.
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 issues.
Sheena is admitted to practice in Ireland and also admitted in Northern Ireland. She has represented client in these jurisdictions in the fields of construction disputes and health and safety.
Sheena is a regular contributing author to Building and Infrastructure Intelligence Magazine and a speaker at construction conferences. She works with industry bodies such as the ACE, FIDIC, IStructE and CIBSE.
Practice Area
Panel
- Contributing Author
Qualified Year
- 1992
Membership
- Society of Construction Law
- Health and Safety Lawyers Association
Qualifications
- CEDR Qualified Mediator
- Admitted in Northern Ireland (not practising) (2002)
- Admitted in England and Wales (1992)
- Admitted in Ireland (2022)
Education
- Brunel University
1 Contributions by Sheena Sood
PRACTICE NOTES
Building Safety Regulator: functions, HRB gateways, oversight of building control, enforcement (including injunctions), fees, contractual impacts, and post-Grenfell reforms including 2026 transfer of functions (England)
Following the Grenfell Tower tragedy in June 2017, Dame Judith Hackitt’s Independent Review of Building Regulations and Fire Safety concluded that a profound change in mindset and practice was required across building safety. In her final report, issued in May 2018, she underlined that the entire system demands a radical overhaul and clarity about how it should operate; the challenge is far more than cladding specifications alone, pointing instead to a sector that has failed to self-scrutinise, learn for itself, or take guidance from other industries. The building safety enquiry culminated in the widely discussed and long-awaited Building Safety Act 2022 (BSA 2022), which obtained Royal Assent on 28 April 2022. BSA 2022 embodies the step-change in how building safety is addressed and how higher-risk buildings (HRBs) in England are regulated, answering the call Dame Judith Hackitt set out. At the centre of this transformative regime was the establishment of a new Building Safety Regulator (BSR), which initially sat within the Health and Safety Executive (HSE)...
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