Liana Turner accepts instructions across Chambers’ core areas of practice, with an emphasis on insurance & reinsurance, professional negligence, construction, commercial, property damage, product liability and personal injury.
Liana is regularly instructed in the County Court on road traffic accident and credit hire trials, as well as applications for pre-action disclosure, re-allocation and strike-out. During her second-six, Liana successfully appeared against a silk in the High Court (KBD) in a case management matter on a multi-track clinical negligence dispute. She has also been instructed on a fast-track trial concerning potential fraud and has successfully appeared against a senior junior in a CCMC.
Alongside her court practice, Liana is developing a strong paper practice. She has been instructed to draft statements of case and provide advice on a variety of commercial, product liability and property damage claims. As a pupil, Liana received instructions to assist with amending a defence to a multi-million pound claim concerning the alleged negligence of tax advisors (led by Caroline McColgan). Most recently, she has recently been instructed to assist with a claim relating to allegedly defective vehicles (led by Daniel Shapiro KC and Mariusz Rumun).
Liana obtained a First Class degree in Law at the University of Nottingham, ranking second in her year and winning numerous academic prizes. She went on to study for the BCL at the University of Oxford on a scholarship, obtaining a Distinction. Prior to pupillage, Liana worked in the injury department at Stewarts, gaining exposure to a variety of personal injury and clinical negligence issues.
Liana is a member of Advocate and accepts pro bono instructions in appropriate cases.
View full profile »Awards
- Best individual advocacy, LCIA-LSE pre-moot to the Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot 2020 (attended by 12 international teams)
- Highest mark in the Law of Contract, University of Nottingham
- South Square Scholarship to read the BCL
- BPP University Advocacy Scholarship
- Middle Temple Benefactors Scholarship
News
- Daimler Buses UK Ltd successfully defends product liability claim
- Liana Turner comments on the recent Court of Appeal decision in Clarke v Poole & Ors [2025] EWCA Civ 447
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Qualifications
- Law LLB, University of Nottingham (First Class, 2nd in year)
- BCL, New College, University of Oxford (Distinction)
- BPTC, BPP University
Memberships
- COMBAR
- Advocate
