Personnel
Raymond Bradley
Name: Raymond Bradley
Position: Managing Partner, Solicitor
Office: Dublin
Responsibilities
Raymond specialises in High Court litigation, and health law. His litigation includes medical negligence actions, personal injury, professional negligence litigation, employer's liability claims, cerebral palsy claims, infectious disease control litigation, commercial litigation, arbitrations and Tribunals of Inquiry.
Raymond has also been appointed by the Mental Health Commission as a legal representative for persons who are involuntarily admitted to Mental Health facilities. Raymond represents persons who wish to have their involuntary detention in a Mental Health facility reviewed by the Mental Health Tribunal.
Background
Raymond holds an Honours Law Degree and a Masters from Trinity College, Dublin. He qualified as a solicitor in 1991, becoming a partner in 1996.
He established the firm's Dublin office in 1996, following the expansion of the Carlow-based firm. He became Managing Partner of Malcomson Law in 1999.
Raymond has extensive experience of taking health-related cases in the Irish High Court, an unrivalled record of involvement in high-profile cases of medical negligence, and in representing victims of health scandals at public inquiries and compensation tribunals.
He has been a negotiator with Government, an examiner of witnesses and a tireless worker for the rights of his clients.
Since the mid 90s, he has played a key role in representing clients in the Tribunals of Inquiry established to find out how and why people's health was damaged or destroyed, by medical and administrative decisions.
In particular, he has represented many members of the haemophilia community.
He negotiated with the Irish Government on the enactment of the terms of reference for the Lindsay Tribunal of Inquiry (which investigated the contamination of persons with haemophilia with Hepatitis C and HIV from infected blood products).
He appeared at the Lindsay Tribunal on behalf of the Irish Haemophilia Society. During its 196 days of hearings, he cross-examined one third of the witnesses who gave evidence.
In a significant legal decision in 1999, his work was central to the Government's decision to reverse the 150-year old legislation regarding compensation for haemophiliacs infected with HIV from contaminated blood products.
As a result of his work, the 1991 settlement agreement was overturned, as being neither fair or equitable. A new HIV Compensation Scheme was put into law in 2002, which is a fair and equitable compensation scheme.
He is well known for appearing for and representing various victim groups, including:
- The Finlay Tribunal of Inquiry into the infection of women with Hepatitis C, through Anti-D transfusions.
- The Hepatitis C Compensation Tribunal for people infected with contaminated blood products.
- The HIV compensation settlements relating to contaminated blood products.
- Organ retention cases involving families and hospitals.
- Representing women who received unnecessary Caesarean hysterectomies.
- The Residential Institutions Redress Board, compensating people for abuse in state-run institutions.
- In 2005, Raymond was involved in the campaign to reform the Coroner's Act, to enable more medical witnesses to be called at inquests.
Raymond also takes time to deliver lectures in international locations such as Istanbul, Edinburgh, New Zealand and Bangkok.