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Leanne Woods
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Leanne Woods specialises in clinical negligence, professional discipline and regulation, inquests and public inquiries, police law, and public law. She also has significant experience in sporting disputes. She is appointed to the Attorney-General’s A Panel of counsel and is called to the bar in Northern Ireland.
Career
Call: 2005.
Memberships
- ALBA; BASL; PIBA; PNBA
Education
- Postgraduate certificate in sports law (Distinction); BVC (Outstanding); LLM, University of Pennsylvania (award for highest mark on LLM course); BA Jurisprudence (First Class), Brasenose College, University of Oxford
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Inquests and inquiries
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 3Leanne Woods –1 Crown Office Row ‘Leanne’s ability to provide clear incisive advice in complex cases is invaluable. She is trusted by both the clients and the court to navigate through difficult circumstances.’
1 Crown Office Row, an ‘excellent chambers with huge depth of barristers‘, combines experience of human rights law, clinical negligence, and personal injury with stand-out expertise in inquests and inquiries: Peter Skelton KC is currently acting in a number of major inquests and inquiries, including for families of victims in the Thirwall Inquiry into deaths connected to the murder of babies at the Countess of Chester Hospital, and for the Metropolitan Police in the Undercover Policing Inquiry. Neil Sheldon KC is acting for UK Government Investments (the government-owned holding company which is the Post Office’s sole shareholder) in the Police Office Horizon IT Inquiry, while in inquests work, Matthew Hill acts for the families of the deceased in the 2020 Reading terror attack. Leanne Woods, experienced in inquests, was instructed for the Department of Health and Social Care in the infected blood inquiry.
London Bar > Professional disciplinary and regulatory law
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 4Leanne Woods – 1 Crown Office Row ‘Leanne has fantastic attention to detail and is extremely well prepared – she knows a case inside and out.‘
London Bar > Clinical negligence
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 3Leanne Woods –1 Crown Office Row ‘Leanne is commercial in her advice and pragmatic in her approach. She is a pleasure to work with – friendly, down to earth, and extremely switched on.’