Clodagh Bradley QC was one of 107 (of 237) applicants who were appointed to silk in 2016. She specialises in healthcare regulatory law, clinical negligence and inquests with a medical or psychiatric element and undertakes work in the Court of Protection. She has dealt with a range of disciplinary cases in the General Medical Council, General Dental Council and the Nursing and Midwifery Council, including cases involving concerns about alcohol and opiate misuse, criminal offences and performance issues. Her clinical negligence practice has included obstetric claims and surgical cases, including live donor transplant surgery. Clodagh has appeared on behalf of […]
Mark Harper QC was one of 107 advocates appointed silk earlier this year at the ceremony in Westminster Hall. Mark said he was “still on cloud nine” at being appointed Queen’s Counsel. I met Mark in his Manchester chambers, which is where he has made his career since joining as pupil some 20 years ago. Mark had chosen to come to the Bar after completing a mini pupillage in a Criminal set, but obtaining a pupillage at Kings Chambers led to him specialising in Chancery and Commercial work. Mark had decided to apply for silk when colleagues and judges started […]