Stuart McKechnie KC

Practice Areas

Stuart McKechnie KC specialises in the highest value catastrophic injury claims. He works exclusively for Claimants. He is a past winner of ‘Personal Injury/Clinical Negligence Junior of the Year’ at the Chambers & Partners Bar Awards and Personal Injury Barrister of the Year at the Personal Injury Awards.

In 2021/22 Stuart conservatively recovered damages with a combined capital value in excess of £150,000,000 on behalf of Claimants. In JDF (a Child) v Hampshire County Council, he settled what at the time was the highest Personal Injury award ever made/approved by a Court in the UK, the equivalent of £28 million capitalised. This case was covered across the national media. More recently, in IXM v Norfolk & Norwich University Hospitals NHS Trust he settled a long running birth brain injury claim for the capital equivalent of £33.2 million. In addition to the high value brain and spinal cord injury cases he conducts, Stuart has a particular speciality in amputation claims.

Stuart is one of only three Barrister members of the working party responsible for the Judicial College Guidelines for the Assessment of General Damages in Personal Injury Cases. He is the General Editor of the APIL Guide To Catastrophic Injury Claims.

Career

University of Nottingham 1993-96

Called to the Bar 1997

Inner Temple Scholar.

KC 2018

Professional Memberships

APIL

PIBA(Member of PIBA Exec Committee)

Publications

General Editor of the APIL Guide to Catastrophic Injury Claims

Editorial working party of the Judicial College Guidelines for the assessment of General Damages