John Mackenzie specialises in dyslexia linked disability
claims, mainly in the employment field, but he also advises
on problems arising from discrimination in education.
John Mackenzie is a Trustee of the British Dyslexia
Association.
John Mackenzie acted for Robert Huskisson in 2002 in the
Ashford Employment Tribunal (Employment Judge Zuke), when
Robert Huskisson recovered £95,000 in a dyslexia linked
disability discrimination claim against Abbey National.
John Mackenzie acted for Owen Brooking in February 2008 in
the Stratford (East London) Employment Tribunal (Employment
Judge Jones), when Owen Brooking succeeded in his claim
against Essex Police arising from his resignation as a
probationer police constable in 2006. (Compensation is yet
to be assessed)
John Mackenzie also acted for Lance Bombardier Kerry
Fletcher in November 2007 in the Leeds Employment Tribunal
(Employment Judge Hildebrand), when Kerry succeeded in her
sex and sexual orientation discrimination claims against the
British Army. (Compensation is yet to be assessed)
John Mackenzie has the conduct of many other dyslexia linked
discrimination claims in the employment tribunal system;
including claims against banks, National Health Service
trusts, local authorities, police forces, the civil service
and other main stream employers.
 The
Law Office of John Mackenzie is situated at Rotherfield
House, 7 Fairmile, Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, RG9 2JR,
England.
Telephone: 00 44 1491 411022.
Fax: 00 44 1491 410613.
John Mackenzie, called to the Bar of England and Wales in
1971, and a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and
Wales from 1979, practises in the fields of military law,
discrimination and general litigation.
John Mackenzie was a founding partner of Mackenzie Persaud
(practising in the London area) and Mosteshar Mackenzie (San
Diego CA.). He now practises as a sole practitioner.
John Mackenzie has Higher Advocacy Rights in Criminal and
Civil proceedings.
Practice Record:
During the 1980s John Mackenzie acted widely for hunt
saboteurs charged with public order offences and achieved a
high acquittal rate.
Many of these cases led to civil proceedings against the
police. John Mackenzie conducted proceedings for malicious
prosecution, false arrest and false imprisonment against 14
English police forces achieving awards of damages in 80% of
the cases.
In the 1990s John Mackenzie acted for the defence in
criminal trials of members of the International Sikh Youth
Federation following Operation Blue Star in Amritsar in the
Punjab, India and a series of major disturbances in the
United Kingdom (including R v Gill and others, a
conspiracy to murder the Indian Prime Minister, Rajiv
Gandhi).
In 1997 John Mackenzie acted as trial advocate for the
plaintiff in Fawkes-Underwood v Hamilton and others,
a High Court action in which the plaintiff recovered his
losses from the Lloyd’s Insurance Market debacle of 1982 to
1985 in full at first instance (the case was subject to a
confidential settlement at the appeal stage).
John Mackenzie has acted for the defence in a number of high
profile British Army General Courts Martial including R v
Newby Grant (the Rhine Army International Show balloon
disaster in 2002), R v Norton and others
(manslaughter arising from a Foot Guards exercise in Jamaica
and R v Cooke and others (manslaughter arising from
the allege death of an Iraqi looter in Basrah in 2003).
John Mackenzie has since 1992 conducted a series of
successful challenges to the British Court Martial system in
the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, including
the seminal case of Findlay v the United Kingdom,
(the major cases are set out below) either on his own or in
conjunction with other military practitioners. These cases
have caused the British government substantially to reshape
the system by a number of Acts of Parliament.
John Mackenzie is currently taking part in a series of
seminars conducted by the Police Federation of England and
Wales on the implications and consequences of deaths from
police shootings (following the high profile Harry Stanley
case in London) and is assisting the Federation on
legislative changes required to facilitate police firearms
operations. John Mackenzie took part in an important panel
on the Harry Stanley case at the 2006 Police Federation
Conference in Bournemouth.
In 1999 John Mackenzie achieved the highest financial award
that year for a dyslexia discrimination claim (Huskisson
v Abbey National).
John Mackenzie conducted the cases in 2003 of Warrant
Officer Angela McConnell and in 2005 of Corporal Leah Mates
against the British Army for sex discrimination, both cases
having wide tabloid coverage; one unsuccessful and one
successful.
Cases in the European Court of Human Rights:
Findlay v the United Kingdom, European Court of Human
Rights, 21st January 1997:
Hood v the United Kingdom , European Court of Human
Rights, 18th February 1999:
Jordan v the United Kingdom (No 1), European Court of
Human Rights, 14th March 2000:
Jordan v the United Kingdom (No 2) , European Court of
Human Rights, 10th December 2002:
Morris v the United Kingdom , European Court of Human
Rights, 26th February 2002:
Grieves v the United Kingdom, European Court of Human
Rights, 16th December 2003:
Thompson v the United Kingdom, European Court of
Human Rights, 15th June 2004:
Le Petit v the United Kingdom, European Court of
Human Rights, 15th June 2004:
Other sites:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/06/12/nirq12.xml
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1532886,00.html
http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?t=112521
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,200-1430997,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/military/story/0,,1746975,00.html
John Mackenzie’s publications have included:
Advocacy in the Magistrates’ Court, Legal Action Group,
1992.
Articles in the New Law Journal
Articles in the Legal Action Group Journal.
John Mackenzie has been a visiting lecturer at the
University of Kent Law Faculty.
John Mackenzie has conducted advocacy training courses for
“Criminal Advocacy Seminars for Solicitors” and the Army
Legal Services.
Regulated by the Law
Society
John Mackenzie is a member of the
National Institute of Military Justice, Washington, DC, USA
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