Sunyana Sharma

Practice Areas

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Sunyana Sharma is an inquest and professional discipline barrister with specialist knowledge in maritime and fishing law and health and safety law. She also has experience in regulatory compliance.

Sunyana Sharma has developed a strong practice in professional disciplinary regulation following secondments at the Nursing and Midwifery Council (‘NMC’) and as in-house lawyer at the General Chiropractic Council (‘GCC’). She appears regularly in most healthcare tribunals for substantive misconduct and health hearings, interim order applications and substantive order reviews. She is regularly instructed by nursing, care homes and GP Surgery’s appealing CQC decisions before the First Tier Tribunal.

As a criminal and regulatory specialist, Sunyana has developed expertise that focuses on the maritime and fisheries sector.  She regularly prosecutes, defends and advises in actions brought by the Maritime Coastguard Agency (‘MCA’). Her cases have included collisions at sea, health and safety breaches, pollution offences, illegal fishing and registration and technical failures.

Sunyana’s experience in inquest work covers medical negligence cases, deaths at sea, fatal accidents at work and deaths in care home settings and suicides of community and voluntary and involuntary patients. She provides added value to inquests as a result of her previous practice area of personal injury in which she conducted clinical negligence claims, work related illnesses and accidents and police misconduct claims.

Sunyana has appeared for both the prosecution and defence in a number of health and safety cases.

Career

Called 2006

Professional Memberships

Assistant Coroner for Hampshire, Southampton and Portsmouth

Deputy District Judge in Civil and Family law