Ranked in 2 Practice Areas
1

Band 1

Personal Injury

London (Bar)

15 Years Ranked

2

Band 2

Clinical Negligence

London (Bar)

9 Years Ranked

About

Provided by Stuart McKechnie KC

UK Bar

Practice Areas

Stuart specialises in the highest value catastrophic injury cases, particularly cases involving brain, spinal and amputation injury. He is well known for his expertise in quantum and maximising the value of claims. In 2023/24 Stuart has 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. He has also been instructed on 2 of the largest PI cases ever brought in Northern Ireland. Stuart is one of only four 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 (being the definitive practitioner guide to running high-value personal injury and clinical negligence) and co-organises the Cambridge Annual Medico-Legal Conference.

Career

LLB Law; Called to the Bar 1996; Silk 2018; PIBA Executive Committee 2023 onwards.

Professional Memberships

PIBA

Publications

Judicial College Guidelines for the Assessment of General Damages in Personal Injury Cases. General Editor of the APIL Guide To Catastrophic Injury Claims.

Personal

Family, good food, football and most other sports.

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