Construction & Engineering
Examples of Bradley’s recent work in the construction and engineering fields include:
- Settling a defence on behalf of property owners in a claim brought by a contractor who provided defective services to them in a self-build extension to their home.
- Settling a defence on behalf of an employer in a claim brought by a contractor who had undertaken defective resurfacing works to an access road.
- Drafting particulars of claim in a subrogated recovery action brought by a main contractor against a sub-contractor for defective plumbing installations in a new-build academy school building.
- Advising a commercial client on the merits of a defence and counterclaim in a proposed claim by a contractor which had installed defective concrete flooring in the client’s industrial premises.
- Acting in the County Court for a contractor in a money claim for invoices unpaid by a defendant litigant in person in respect of refurbishment and extension works. Bradley has also advised on and assisted with enforcement action on an ongoing basis.
- Drafting a defence and an application to set aside default judgment and advising in conference in respect of an action brought against an installer of underfloor heating in a newbuild property.
- Advising and acting for a respondent homeowner in an application brought by a contractor to set aside a statutory demand.
- Formerly, Bradley was instructed as junior counsel and on an ongoing basis by the Claimants in Munícipio de Mariana and others v BHP Group (the Fundão Dam disaster litigation) in their class action for damages caused by the collapse of the Fundão Dam in Brazil. The litigation turns in part on complex matters concerning the design, maintenance and safety of a major upstream iron ore tailings dam.
- Advising a construction client in respect of an allegedly “genuine dispute” raised by a company in response to a Statutory Demand and as a defence to a winding-up petition.
- Drafting a defence and advising on strategy in a claim brought against consumers by a defendant main contractor in respect of alleged failure to pay project management fees contractually agreed for the provision of a domestic two-storey extension.
- Acting for a defendant sub-contractor in an application to set aside judgment entered in its absence in a personal injury claim.
- Drafting a defence and advising in a claim brought against a sub-contractor in respect of works undertaken to resurface a pavement on the instructions of a Local Authority. The Claimants alleged that the work in question had raised the level of the pavement surface and caused flooding at their property adjacent to the highway.
- Drafting particulars of claim on behalf of an employer seeking to recover damages of nearly £80,000 from a sub-contractor in a corporate refurbishment project. The sub-contractor was responsible for the installation and subsequent failure of a HVAC system which caused a glycol leak and resulted in considerable property damage.
- Settling a defence in a claim brought by a main contractor against a homeowner in respect of monies due under a contract.
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View full profile »Awards
- Queen Mother Scholarship, Middle Temple (2020)
- Winner, Cardiff University Undergraduate/GDL Moot (2020)
- Arteaga Prize for best performance in Spanish Language & Literature, Oxford University (2004)
- Various academic scholarships, Merton College (2001-2004)
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Qualifications
- BA, Modern Languages & Literature (French & Spanish – First Class), Merton College, University of Oxford
- GDL (Distinction), Cardiff University
- BTC & LLM (Outstanding, with Distinction in LLM), Cardiff University
