Biographical details - John Bradley
John Bradley left school at the age of sixteen and, in 1968, joined Hayes, Son & Richmond (as it was called at that time) as an office boy. After progressing through the ranks as junior clerk, legal executive and articled clerk (the old fashioned name for trainee solicitors) he qualified in 1976, becoming a partner in 1981. John is Lincolnshire born and bred, proud to be a yellow belly and lives in the county. He has spent all his working life with the practice and has been our managing partner since 1998. In 1990 he was awarded membership of the British Institute of Management, as it then was.

In professional terms John is the firm’s employment law expert and also acts as specialist employment law adviser at the Citizens Advice Bureau. He has been a guest on BBC Radio Lincolnshire’s phone-in programme answering calls from many listeners with questions in this extensive and sometimes difficult area of the law. John has expertise on a range of employer and employee issues and appears in the Employment Tribunal regularly and at the Employment Appeal Tribunal.

In addition to all of this, John Bradley has responsibility for our criminal law department with many years experience of criminal defence at all levels, having acted in several major, high profile, cases. He holds or has held positions on the Legal Services Commission Funding Review Committee, Regional Duty Solicitor Committee and the Lincolnshire Courts Board as well as acting as an LSC Independent Adjudicator.

John had the ‘distinction’ of representing the first person in Court number one before the new Magistrates Court at Gainsborough when it opened in 1977 but shared the general disappointment at its closure some thirty years later, in 2008, despite widespread protest.

2008 also marked John’s forty years with the firm and, to mark the occasion, he has published his first book ‘Lifting the lid on the Law.’ Although some serious points are made, this is mainly an amusing book that contains countless comical moments along the way. Copies may be ordered through our Gainsborough office.