Jock Mackenzie

Information about the specialist

jock.mackenzie@anthonygold.co.uk

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.