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.

Called to the Bar 1997. Silk 2018

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 (being the definitive practitioner guide to running high-value personal injury and clinical negligence actions).

University of Nottingham, Degree: LLB Law,

Inner Temple Scholar

Away from work, Stuart likes to spend time with his young family and watch sport. He continues to live in hope that his beloved Norwich City Football Club will “do a Leicester”.