Turan Hursit

Turan practises in Clinical Negligence, Personal Injury, the Court of Protection, Inquests and Inquiries, Public Law, and Human Rights and has a particular interest in medical cases raising human rights issues. She has appeared unled in the High Court and assisted with cases in the Court of Appeal. Her recent cases include Bass v Ministry of Defence [2020] EWHC 36 (QB), the Manchester Arena bombings, the re-opened inquest into the Guildford pub bombings, and civil claims arising from the infected blood scandal.

Turan’s varied clinical negligence and personal injury caseload includes cases concerning brain injuries, cauda equina syndrome, and delayed diagnosis of cancer, of a value of up to £1 million. In the Court of Protection, she has experience of acting against opponents 20 years her senior, including in cases concerning serious medical treatment. She is regularly instructed in multi-week inquests and advises on a variety of human rights issues and judicial reviews spanning community care, police law, and breaches of the Human Rights Act 1998.

Turan studied Law with French Law at the University of Bristol and an LLM in Public Law at the LSE. She was awarded an academic scholarship from the LSE for her LLM and a full scholarship from the Inner Temple for her Bar training. She was called to the Bar in 2017 after working at the European Court of Justice, the UCL Constitution Unit, and various NGOs. She speaks fluent Turkish and French, intermediate German, and basic Spanish and Italian.