Biography
Taylor was born to Jamaican parents in Birmingham in 1952. His father was Derief Taylor, a professional cricketer, and his mother was a nurse. Taylor attended Moseley Grammar School in Birmingham where he was head boy, then Keele University where he studied English Literature and Law, followed by the Inns of Court School of Law in London.
Taylor married in 1981, he and his wife having three children together and living in Ealing. They divorced in 2005. The Daily Telegraph reported that Taylor is an evangelical Christian, and in 2009 married a wealthy evangelical Christian from Florida, where Taylor lived for a short while. That marriage was annulled in 2010.
Taylor, who was called to the Bar in 1978, was appointed as a part-time Deputy District Judge (Magistrates Court) in 1997. He was disbarred as a result of his criminal convictions in May 2012.
- 1976 - BA (Hons) Law Degree
- 1978 - Gray's Inn Advocacy Award winner
- 1978 - Called to the Bar, Barrister-at-Law
- 1986-91 - North West Thames Regional Health Authority
- 1999 - Honorary Doctorate in Law, LLD, Warwick University
- 1986-90 - Solihull Borough Councillor
- 1990-91 - Special Adviser to the Home Secretary and Ministers of State
- 1992-93 - Greater London Further Education Funding Council
- 1992-95 - Independent Football Commission
- 1997 - Introduced the Criminal Evidence Amendment Act 1997
- 1998 - 2000 Vice President, British Board of Film Classification
- 2007 - All Party Parliamentary Information Select Committee
- 2012 - Disbarred for conduct discreditable to a barrister.
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