Jock Mackenzie

Practice Areas

A partner on the medical claims team, Jock is a dual qualified doctor and solicitor.

Qualifying as a doctor at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital in 1990 and practising as a full-time hospital physician for nearly five years, Jock then qualified as a solicitor in 1998 and continued to work as a doctor part-time until 2004.

He has a broad clinical negligence practice and, due to his medical background, has a particular interest and expertise in cases involving complex medicine; rare medical conditions; general internal medicine and intensive care, including sepsis.

Much of his work focuses on brain injury cases (adults, especially following cardiac arrest, and children, including cerebral palsy and Group B Streptococcus meningitis), neurological, neurosurgical and spinal injuries.

Jock's significant settled cases include the High Court case of Kennedy v Frankel, as well as the following:

-£1.5 million plus c.£315,000 p.a. periodical payment for a severe brain injury resulting from an air embolus following a central line removal.

-£1.5 million for cauda equina syndrome and other neurological damage due to spinal infarction from a cardiac arrest resulting from a delay in diagnosis of a pulmonary embolus.

-£1 million for a brain injury due to a missed radiological diagnosis of a brain abnormality.

-£950,000 for a fatal case due to the delay in diagnosis of secondary haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis/macrophage activation syndrome.

-Over £770,000 for a significant spinal injury from use of experimental spinal implants.

Jock also has significant experience of cases involving treatment in the private healthcare sector.

Career

Qualified as a doctor 1990

Qualified as a solicitor 1998

Partner Leigh Day 2003

Partner Anthony Gold 2013

Solicitor-Advocate with Higher Rights of Audience (Civil) in 2013

Professional Memberships

General Medical Council

Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) senior litigator

Action Against Medical Accidents (AvMA) panel

Law Society Clinical Negligence panel (re-accreditation pending)

Publications

Editorial Board of Kemp & Kemp: Personal Injury Law, Practice and Procedure.

Clinical negligence updates for Bond Solon, and regular conference speaker