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Call: 1976  Silk: 1998 Practice Areas Family Law - Finance and Divorce Family Law - Children Criminal Law '. . . undertakes a mixture of finance and children work, but is more deeply engaged with the former. Fresh from a recent appearance in Miller in the House of Lords, he is felt to bring something new to bear on cases time after time.'   Chambers and Partners 020 7936 1500 jturner@1kbw.co.uk

James Turner QC has wide and varied experience in Common Law predominantly in Family Law, Criminal Law / Professional Disciplinary Law and Administrative Law. He is recommended in both the Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners Directory as a Leading Silk in Family work.
James appeared before courts of all levels, including the House of Lords, in each of these areas of law.
Within Family Law, particular expertise in financial work (was leading counsel for the wife before the House of Lords in White v. White), finance related professional negligence work, and international child abduction. Has also appeared in ancillary relief cases in the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.
Criminal and Professional Disciplinary work includes both prosecuting and defending, with considerable experience of technical and procedural points. Regularly instructed on behalf of medical and dental practitioners in criminal proceedings and in professional disciplinary proceedings before the General Medical Council (most recently, successfully represented a consultant who was alleged to have falsified the results of research projects for drugs companies), and has appeared on behalf of medical practitioners before the Privy Counsel and before a Home Office Public disciplinary enquiry into the professional competence of a forensic pathologist.
Administrative Law practice, when a junior, included work as a member of the supplementary panel of Treasury Counsel. Work for the Treasury Solicitor has continued since taking silk. Such work has included representation of the Home Secretary, the Director of Public Prosecutions, Courts, and the Police Complaints Authority. It also includes extradition work and mutual legal assistance work in England and abroad (e.g. acted for the Home Secretary in the Pinochet case). In addition, has represented the Home Office in civil claims (e.g. claim for damages by escaped IRA prisoners who claimed that they had been beaten when recaptured, and claim by prison officers who alleged that they had suffered nervous breakdowns as a result of working with sex offenders).