Overview

J. Mark Jackson, KC has a legal practice focused on health law litigation, hospital-physician relationships, post-graduate medical education matters, and advising health care organizations on policy, governance, and contract issues. He is a member of the bar and engaged in a broad range of health care-related issues on behalf of public and private sector clients in Alberta, British Columbia, Yukon, and the Northwest Territories. Mark’s legal practice is divided between representing health care organizations facing complex medical malpractice claims and supporting medical leadership, medical advisory committees, and Boards, in their designated roles under medical staff Bylaws and Rules.

Mark regularly represents clients in medical malpractice litigation, hearings, inquests, appeals and fatality inquiries and provides advice on quality assurance processes and clinical issues, policies, standards of care and risk management. Known for his technical depth in health care and his skilled questioning, Mark has assisted clients before the Alberta Court of King’s Bench, the Alberta Court of Appeal, the Ontario Superior Court, the Supreme Court of Yukon, the Supreme Court of the Northwest Territories, the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, and the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal. Mark also handles matters in alternative dispute resolution proceedings, arbitrations, administrative hearings, and mediation. Mark is involved in drafting and updating medical staff bylaws and rules, advising on health care organizations on their relationships with medical staff, and representing medical leadership in administrative hearings and before statutory appeal bodies. Mark also acts as process counsel for medical advisory committees involved in disciplinary proceedings.

Almost exclusively for over 25 years Mark has worked closely with health care organizations, medical leadership, and health care staff, including representing their interests in hearings, at trial and on appeal. Mark is also a frequent lecturer, providing in services on risk management issues, documentation, and best practices using practical examples that arise in actual litigation. Mark also lectures at the University of Alberta Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry and Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences on medical malpractice.

Mark carefully monitors health care reform, medical malpractice law, and health care legislation on a provincial and federal level, offering advice and guidance to clients impacted by developments. He provides clinical policy and practice opinions to health care clients to assist with operational issues.

Practice Areas

• Health Law

Bar Information

Called to the bar: 2000 (AB); 2011 (NT)