Liana joined Chambers as a tenant in October 2024, having successfully completed pupillage. She accepts instructions across Chambers’ core areas of practice, with a particular emphasis on insurance and reinsurance, professional negligence, product liability, and personal injury.
Recent instructions include:
- Dublin Coach v Dawsongroup & Daimler Buses UK Ltd: acting for Daimler Buses UK Ltd in the successful defence of a product liability claim concerning Mercedes-Benz Tourismo coaches. The claimant discontinued its claim shortly before trial in June, paying the majority of Daimler’s costs (led by Daniel Shapiro KC and Mariusz Rumun).
- Acting for the claimant in proceedings in the Commercial Court to obtain an urgent ex parte interim anti-suit injunction restraining the prosecution of claims for breach of a property insurance policy allegedly worth in excess of £4m in the Arbitrazh Court of the City of Moscow (led by Carlo Taczalski).
- Acting for the claimant in proceedings concerning fire damage allegedly caused by two coffee machines (led by Elizabeth Boon).
- Assisting with a defence on behalf of the insurers of chartered tax advisers in a multi-million pound claim concerning a claimant who had entered into numerous tax mitigation schemes (led by Caroline McColgan).
- Assisting the Ministry of Justice in relation to Module 8 of the UK COVID-19 Inquiry (led by James Maxwell-Scott KC).
- Acting for an insurer in a claim concerning an alleged breach of a landlord insurance policy, including making a successful application to set aside default judgment.
- Advising solicitors in relation to a potential professional negligence claim arising out of the drafting of a declaration of trust concerning the relative ownership and entitlements in a family property.
Liana holds an LLB from the University of Nottingham, having graduated second in her year. She then completed the BCL at the University of Oxford as a South Square Scholar, obtaining a distinction.
She is currently on secondment to the Supreme Court, where she is a Judicial Assistant to Lady Rose of Colmworth.
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
- Carlo Taczalski and Liana Turner obtain anti-suit injunction to enforce compliance with exclusive jurisdiction agreement within an English insurance policy
- Daimler Buses UK Ltd successfully defends product liability claim
Articles
Events
Qualifications
- Law LLB, University of Nottingham (First, 2nd in year)
- BCL, New College, University of Oxford (Distinction)
- BPTC, BPP University
Memberships
- COMBAR
- Advocate
