Amber Turner

Amber has experience of dealing with claims under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975 (the 1975 Act), as well as cases involving issues as to the validity and interpretation of wills, Re Benjamin and Fitzhugh Gates (a firm) v Sherman orders, discretionary trusts, and claims for accounts. She has also been involved in various executor and trustee removal claims, achieving positive outcomes for her clients.

Examples of her recent work include:

• Successfully defending a claim under the 1975 Act at a two-day trial, securing a dismissal of the claim.
• Acting for beneficiaries in a successful application to “pass over” an executor under section 116 of the Senior Courts Act 1981 and in relation to a proposed claim against the removed executor for abuse of a lasting power of attorney.
• Acting for the defendants in a challenge to the validity of a will on the basis of lack of testamentary capacity and to various lifetime transactions.
• Advising the defendants to a will challenge based on lack of testamentary capacity and undue influence and drafting the Defence and Counterclaim.
• Acting for the defendant in a claim by executors to propound disputed wills, in particular in an application concerning the use of estate funds.
• Acting for the neutral executor in a claim under the 1975 Act where there is a live question about the extent of the net estate.

As a pupil, Amber also observed and considered issues relating to Nil Rate Band Discretionary Trusts, intestacy and domicile, charitable trusts and permanent endowment, and variation and rectification of Wills.

Amber has a particular interest in disputes arising from relationship and family breakdown and has a wide range of experience in applications made under the Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996 (TOLATA), including:

• Acting, led by William Moffett, for the successful appellant in Savage v Savage [2024] EWCA Civ 49, a case concerning the correct interpretation of section 15(3) TOLATA.
• Acting for the claimant executor in a dispute arising out of lifetime declarations of trust.
• Acting for the claimant in proceedings involving a claim for equitable accounting.

She also has significant experience across a variety of other property work. Examples of her work include:

• Acting for 3 companies seeking an injunction and damages for malicious falsehood/slander of title in respect of applications alleged to be wrongfully made to HM Land Registry.
• Acting for a claimant company in a claim in tort relating to flooding at its hospital premises.
• Acting for freeholders in claims for wrongful forfeiture and/or relief from forfeiture.
• Advising on the status of occupiers of properties in different contexts.
• Advising a freeholder on the application of the proviso implied by s.19 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1927, that the lessor shall not unreasonably withhold its consent to improvements.
• Advising on claims for possession and appearing at possession hearings (rent, mortgage, forfeiture, and trespass cases) and related applications (including to transfer proceedings to the High Court).
• Appearing in the First-tier Tribunal in lease extension and service charge cases.
• Appearing in charging order applications.
• Appearing in a vesting order application.
• Advising on various service charge issues.

Amber was led by Alec Haydon KC in Alta Trading UK (formerly known as Arcadia Petroleum Limited) v. Bosworth [2025] EWHC 91 (Comm). The case was heard in the Commercial Court from May to July 2024 and concerned an alleged US$325 million West African crude oil trading fraud.

Examples of Amber’s commercial work include:

• Acting for the claimants, who are national companies, in a claim for damages for breach of contract by an alleged wrongful termination.
• Acting for the proposed claimant in a claim for damages for breach of contract by actions which are alleged to amount to repudiatory breach.
• Acting for the proposed claimant in a dispute over whether an entitlement to remuneration had arisen.
• Advising potential parties on claims for misrepresentation, including in a property sale context and in the case of a franchise agreement.
• Acting for the director of a dissolved company in their application for restoration of the company to the register.
• Advising on the enforceability of an arbitration award in the High Court.
• Advising on the removal of directors of a company.

Amber has experience across a variety of common insolvency applications, including bankruptcy and winding-up petitions, applications to set aside statutory demands and for suspension of discharge, annulment applications, administration applications and extensions, remuneration applications, validation order applications, and applications for permission to re-use company names. She has also been instructed to appear in the ICC Interim Applications list.

Her insolvency work also includes:

• Led by David Mohyuddin KC, advising Trustees in Bankruptcy on various issues arising in the context of a complex bankruptcy.
• Advising on the winding-up of an overseas company.

Amber has experience of drafting a defence and appearing at hearings concerning breaches of the UK GDPR.

• BPC, University of Law, 2020-21 (Outstanding)
• BA in Law, Pembroke College, University of Cambridge, 2017-20 (First Class)

• Contentious Trusts Association
• Property Bar Association
• COMBAR

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