London Bar
Clinical negligence
HALL OF FAME3Stuart McKechnie KC – Deka Chambers ‘Stuart's fierce intelligence combined with his careful and thorough preparation and forensic attention to detail results in outstanding outcomes for clients.'
Personal injury and clinical negligence, Deka Chambers
Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence
Stuart McKechnie KC specialises in the highest value catastrophic injury claims involving complex issues and large numbers of experts.
He works for many of the leading personal injury and clinical negligence solicitor firms in the country and all of his practice is in the High Court. 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 has (conservatively) recovered damages with a combined capital value in excess of £150,000,000 (one hundred and fifty million) 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.
Stuart is also currently instructed on what is likely to be one the largest personal injury claims ever made in Northern Ireland.
University of Nottingham, Degree: LLB Law,
Inner Temple Scholar
London Bar
Stuart McKechnie KC – Deka Chambers ‘Stuart's fierce intelligence combined with his careful and thorough preparation and forensic attention to detail results in outstanding outcomes for clients.'
London Bar
Stuart McKechnie KC – Deka Chambers ‘Ferocious eye for detail, meticulous preparation and adds value to every case he is instructed on - the leading quantum PI silk in the country.'