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Liana Turner

Call 2021

Professional Liability

Recent instructions include:

  • Liana received instructions during her pupillage to assist with amending 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. She was later instructed to assist with disclosure in advance of the mediation (led by Caroline McColgan).
  • 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.
  • Acting for an architect in proceedings concerning the provision of architectural services in relation to a residential building project.
  • Advising a firm of solicitors alleged to have misused client money during a property conveyance (as a pupil).
  • Advising a firm of solicitors who had provided the claimant with independent legal advice in relation to a transaction in which the claimant secured a loan for the benefit of her son against two properties (as a pupil).
  • Drafting a skeleton argument for an application for summary judgment on behalf of a firm of conveyancing solicitors in relation to a claimant who alleged that the sale of her property was an unconscionable bargain and procured by undue influence (as a pupil).

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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

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Qualifications


  • Law LLB, University of Nottingham (First, 2nd in year)
  • BCL, New College, University of Oxford (Distinction)
  • BPTC, BPP University

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  • COMBAR
  • Advocate

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