Veggy,
Investigate all other avenues first before going near Ryanair/Brookfield. This outfit is actually as lousy as everyone says and you will find few people willing to speak up for them. For some its a flying school - you leave with 2000 hours, before they make you a captain. For others, its a last resort airline to put food on the table if there are no other jobs going at the time (needs must when the devil drives).
In terms of contracts, theres no choice - certainly for FO's. These days they're all forced to set up companies with two other FO's and pay part of their earnings to some accountants in Ireland (who are probably in business with Ryanair/Brookfield). On the older contracts, you didnt have to set up a tax avoiding company with other pilots. This was better because i dread to think where the liability would stop should a fellow company director have, ahem, a bad day at the office, or even if they got divorced. Having said that, those contracts are still toilet paper and i think you may safely consider the notice period to be optional.
I doubt you will persuade someone to scan in a copy of their contract, redact the personal bits and still run the risk of it being traceable. Plenty of guys have recently left and might do it, but i doubt they'll waste their time and those are old contracts anyway.