Matthew Turner

Matthew specialises in inquests, clinical negligence, personal injury, actions against the police, and professional discipline. He is an expert in wrongful death cases.

Clinical Negligence, Personal Injury & Product Liability

Inquests and Public Inquiries

Actions Against the Police and Public Authorities

Professional Discipline and Regulation

International Law

Matthew is a personal injury and human rights barrister, specialising in tort and Human Rights Act claims arising out of death or serious injury. Matthew is widely recognised as a leading junior in wrongful death cases and has an exceptional record of exposing serious failures by state institutions and private corporations.

Matthew is passionate about representing bereaved families and seriously injured claimants. He is regularly instructed in complex and high-value claims involving catastrophic injures, and has extensive inquest and trial experience, far beyond his level of call. Matthew regularly appears in hearings lasting for multiple weeks and is a skilled and battle-hardened courtroom advocate.

Matthew graduated top of his year in law at the University of Nottingham. This included a year of postgraduate study at the University of Texas at Austin Law School. During this time, he represented death row inmates in federal appeals.

Before coming to the Bar, Matthew practised as a commercial solicitor. He trained at the ‘Magic Circle’ law firm, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, and then worked as an Associate Solicitor at Haynes and Boone LLP, a leading US law firm based in Texas.

He is Public Access qualified and regularly accepts instructions on this basis.

Matthew is the current Chair and former Executive Director (2018 – 2022) of the Labour Campaign for Human Rights.

Personal Injury Bar Association

Association of Personal Injury Lawyers

Action Against Medical Accidents

Bar Human Rights Committee

Society of Labour Lawyers

Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers

The Times, MPs must back the genocide amendment to oppose the oppression of the Uighurs, 02/02/21

Fair Observer, Another Journalist Disappears in Bangladesh, 29/04/20

Morning Star, Queues at foodbanks and hungry children: why we need a ‘Right to Food’, 09/19

The Independent, If Labour treated its antisemitism crisis like the human rights injustice it is, it could end the discrimination, 23/07/19

The Guardian, Britain’s long tradition of respect for human rights is under threat, 10/12/18

The Times, Britain has overlooked Saudi Arabia’s transgressions for too long, 01/11/18

Bar Transfer Test, BPP Law School (2018)

Legal Practice Course, BPP Law School (2015), Distinction

LLB, Law with American Law, University of Nottingham (2014), First Class with Distinction in American Law (top graduating student)

Maxwell Law Prize (2014) – top graduating law student

JD & Elizabeth Marsden Prize (2014) – outstanding academic and extracurricular achievement