Professional Discipline
Annie has a strong interest in professional disciplinary matters. She has a good understanding of the challenges faced by healthcare and social work professionals and prides herself on providing excellent client service in these difficult proceedings. She also understands the unique demands of advocacy before disciplinary tribunals and prides herself on her careful and persuasive advocacy in this setting.
She has represented clients before tribunals of the BACP, BPC and HCPC.
Examples of her recent work include:
- Represented a therapist accused of sexually motivated and dishonest conduct in Fitness to Practice proceedings. Following Annie’s cross-examination of the sole witness of fact, the BPC dropped the charges of dishonesty and sexual misconduct.
- Secured the discontinuance of all allegations against two child psychologists.
- Represented a therapist facing serious allegations of misconduct in interim order proceedings, resulting in no interim order being made.
- Secured the dismissal of complaints against a therapist accused of improperly ending therapy.
- Represented a therapist accused of an improper dual relationship, with the result that no restrictions were placed on the therapist’s practice.
- Successfully secured the dismissal of complaints before the BACP against a therapist accused of improperly ending therapy.
Annie accepts pro bono instructions via Advocate.
Selected Cases
Clinical Negligence
Annie has a particular experience of clinical negligence cases. She is frequently instructed by NHS Resolution and insurers to advise and draft statements of case in a wide variety of clinical negligence claims. She has a busy court practice and regularly appears in interim applications, infant approval hearings and CCMCs.
Examples of her recent work include:
- Instructed as trial counsel on behalf of two dentists for a four-day trial concerning alleged mismanagement of periodontal disease. Settled via counsel-to-counsel discussion for 25% of the pleaded value of the claim.
- Held a conference with experts and subsequently drafted the defence in a high value claim concerning allegations of a mismanaged fall in hospital resulting in paraplegia.
- Drafted the defence in a complex claim relating to delayed diagnosis of sepsis in a patient with learning difficulties, following a conference with the clinicians involved.
- Successfully secured strike-out of a claim alleging mismanagement of stroke symptoms by a GP surgery.
- Advised in conference and in writing on quantum in a claim arising from an extravasation injury which involved complex questions in relation to capacity and medical causation.
Annie accepts instructions from Defendants and Claimants and is willing to accept instructions on a CFA basis. She accepts pro bono instructions via Advocate.
Annie is a member of AvMA and PNBA. She delivers talks on areas of interest, including at PNBA’s Clinical Negligence Conference.
Selected Cases
View full profile »Awards
- Residential Scholar and James Crouch Scholarship, Gray’s Inn (2020)
- Ziegler Prize for Law, Pembroke College (2019 and 2020)
- Faculty prizes for Administrative and Land Law, University of Cambridge (2018 and 2019)
- College scholarships, Pembroke College (2017, 2018 and 2019)
News
- Members of Crown Office Chambers recognised for their Pro Bono work
- Annie Mackley successful at trial in Berresford v Shah
Events
Articles
- Lessons for Universities: the Appeal in Abrahart
- Frontiers of medical negligence and diagnosis: an interview-based analysis
Qualifications
- BTC, Inns of Court College of Advocacy
- LLM (First Class with Distinction), University of Cambridge, Pembroke College
- BA (Hons) Law (Double First), University of Cambridge, Pembroke College
Memberships
- PIBA
- PNBA
- AvMA
