Jastinder Samra

Senior Associate

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What can I do for you

She's recently advised clients on issues relating to liability, causation and quantum in complex construction matters, defects in the works/services rendered during a construction projects, and also delay issues ie extensions of time and loss and expense. In doing so, Jastinder's guided clients through the pre-action process, alternative dispute resolution, adjudication and litigation in the Technology and Construction Court.

What do others say

Having worked in-house with a diverse range of public and private-sector entities, Jastinder is well aware of the commercial and reputational challenges that clients face, and the speed within which clients must operate to overcome those challenges and seize opportunities. As a result, she's developed a keen sense for how lawyers can help: tailoring pragmatic advice and delivering it in a format that helps those responsible for taking strategic decisions to efficiently do so on the back of that legal advice.

Supporting your ambitions

Jastinder advises a number of educational institutions and understands how they operate.

She's also advised them, and others, on the implications of the Building Safety Act 2022, particularly in relation to remediation orders, remediation contribution orders and building liability orders. 

As well as advising employers, Jastinder also advises contractors and is currently advising on a matter in the Technology and Construction Court in respect of a delay claim involving a claim for prolongation and for loss and expense.

What else should you know?

During Jastinder's training contract, she was seconded to entities operating in the life science and automotive industries. She has considerable in-house experience, managing a wide-ranging portfolio of insolvency matters at a national insolvency practitioner firm.  

She's a member of the Society of Construction Law. 

Jastinder is fluent in Punjabi. 

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