Liana joined Chambers as a tenant in October 2024, having completed pupillage. She accepts instructions across Chambers’ core areas of practice, including insurance, product liability, commercial, professional liability, property damage and personal injury.
Recent highlights 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 2025, 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 £4m+ in the Arbitrazh Court of the City of Moscow (led by Carlo Taczalski).
- Assisting the Ministry of Justice in relation to Module 8 of the UK COVID-19 Inquiry (led by James Maxwell-Scott KC).
- 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 was the judicial assistant to Lady Rose of Colmworth in the UK Supreme Court and Judicial Committee of the Privy Council from September 2025 – July 2026, where she assisted with several appeals including:
- CCC (by her mother and litigation friend MMM) v Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust [2026] UKSC 5: an appeal concerning “lost years’ earnings”; that is, the earnings a claimant forgoes during the years of life expectancy lost through the defendant’s negligence. The majority held that child claimants can recover lost years’ earnings (Lady Rose dissenting).
- AXA Insurance UK PLC v Commissioners of Inland Revenue [2026] UKSC 24: an appeal arising out of the CFC and Dividend Group Litigation Order made in 2003. The judgment gives useful guidance on the operation of group litigation, and in particular the circumstances in which the court should “order otherwise” pursuant to CPR 19.23(1).
Liana also assisted Lord Sales with an article concerning the compatibility of AI judging with Article 6 ECHR (forthcoming in Public Law).
View full profile »Awards
- Best individual advocacy, LCIA-LSE pre-moot to the Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot 2020
- 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
- Liana Turner returning to practice following a year as a judicial assistant at the Supreme Court
- Carlo Taczalski and Liana Turner obtain anti-suit injunction to enforce compliance with exclusive jurisdiction agreement within an English insurance policy
Articles
Events
Qualifications
- LLB, University of Nottingham (First, 2nd in year)
- BCL, New College, University of Oxford (Distinction)
- BPTC, BPP University
Memberships
- COMBAR
- Advocate
