Stuart Brady

Stuart’s personal injury work is exclusively on the multitrack and intermediate track.

Stuart’s experience covers employers’ liability, public liability, highways, occupiers’ liability, defective premises, nuisance, Animals Act, and road traffic claims.

Stuart has extensive drafting and advisory experience across such claims and has a very robust and practical approach in running and defending such matters.

Stuart is very happy appearing at CCMC hearings and joint settlement meetings, and in dealing with experts.

Stuart’s personal injury experience includes:

• Serious brain injuries.
• Serious spinal injuries.
• Cases with multiple experts.

Stuart has been instructed in a very significant number of industrial disease cases. He is regularly instructed to act in High Court claims including on the Mesothelioma List.

Stuart has acted in or advised in relation to a broad range of disease claims, including noise induced hearing loss, asbestos, COSHH and hand arm vibration syndrome.  He has also acted in contribution claims in these areas.

Stuart is very comfortable dealing with expert evidence and limitation matters both on paper and at trial.

Stuart’s industrial disease work has included:

• Regular instructions in asbestos litigation.
• Novel arguments about employers’ “date of knowledge”, foreseeability and standard of care.
• Successfully running arguments at trial that adverse inferences under the approach in Keefe v Isle of Man Steam Packet should be adopted.
• Successful limitation arguments run at trial on the application of Sections 11, 14 and 33 of the Limitation Act 1980.

Stuart enjoys a busy and diverse clinical negligence practice.

Stuart has acted in claims involving NHS Trusts, general practitioners, surgeons, dentists and other medical professionals.

This work has seen Stuart conduct work across maternity, pain management, gynaecology, orthopaedic surgery, neurology, dental surgery, orthodontics, gastroenterology and other medical fields.

The subject matter of such claims has been as diverse as negligence in child-birth, prescription of painkillers, negligently conducted dental or orthopaedic surgery, negligent post-natal care and a number of failures to diagnose.

Stuart is very comfortable dealing with experts and advising on matters of breach and causation.  He takes a very practical and pragmatic approach in the advice he provides on tactics.

Stuart’s sports law work straddles personal injury, industrial disease, disciplinary and employment law.  Stuart is on the Sports Resolutions National Panel to sit in adjudication on sports disputes.

Stuart has acted for a number of rugby union and league players in relation to long term brain injuries.  He brings a unique perspective as a former professional rugby player himself with the Saracens club.

Additionally, Stuart has experience in football matters and has appeared at a Football Association arbitration representing a Football League club in a dispute over the dismissal of a manager.

Stuart also has experience in boxing, dealing with serious brain injuries and issues relating to safety regulations.

Stuart has significant experience in professional discipline work, including on appeal at the High Court, and is well-placed to deal with matters relating to disciplinary cases in the sports sector.

Stuart has acted in discrimination, unfair dismissal, harassment, whistleblowing, breach of contract and employment-status claims. This includes advising and acting on appeal.

Stuart provides very regular advice and drafting to a range of claimant and respondent clients. This includes work for insurers and trade unions.

Stuart has acted in employment related arbitrations in football.

Stuart is happy to accept employment instructions on a public access basis taking instructions directly from members of the public where appropriate.

Stuart has a busy professional disciplinary practice and consistently gets excellent results for both prosecutors and defendants in such proceedings.

Stuart’s disciplinary practice covers proceedings relating to accountants, lawyers, teachers, and medical professionals.

Stuart is regularly instructed by regulators and trade unions in such cases.

Stuart has experience of High Court appeal proceedings in professional disciplinary cases.

Stuart is happy to advise and consider acting in professional disciplinary matters on a public access basis, taking instructions directly from members of the public, where appropriate.

Stuart has a diverse professional negligence practice.

Stuart has recently acted in claims relating to surveyors and solicitors, alongside a busy medical negligence practice.  Such claims have included negligence in conveyancing, litigation, landlord and tenant matters, and tax.

Stuart is aided in his professional negligence practice by his heterogenous civil common law practice. He is able to gain a quick grasp of the issues in the case and identifying a tactical way forward for a client.

Stuart is always mindful of very carefully advising on matters of causation in such claims.

Stuart has appeared at a broad range of coroner’s inquests for families, insurers and professional parties.

Stuart’s coronial practice has spanned road traffic, care home, hospital, and workplace deaths.

Stuart is happy to advise and consider acting in inquests on a public access basis taking instructions directly from members of the public, where appropriate.

Stuart acts very regularly in civil matters with a fraud element.  This includes low-speed impact claims, claims with arguments about causation, staged accidents, and fraud rings.

Stuart prides himself on his robust cross-examination and pragmatic advice provided in conference.

Stuart’s practice has seen him act on broad range of what may be considered “civil common law” matters.  This has included sale of goods claims, construction disputes and various other contractual matters.