Jason Taylor

Degree: LL.B (Hons) Wales
Year of call and Inn: 1995; Gray’s Inn: Prince of Wales scholar. Lord Denning scholar.
Professional Membership: Western Circuit; CBA

Practice:
Crime
Jason Taylor is a highly experienced advocate undertaking all types of criminal work; prosecuting and defending. He is a CPS Grade 3 prosecutor. He is widely instructed in the most serious criminal cases ranging from complex and high-value fraud to murder. He is frequently briefed in multi-handed drug conspiracies and in cases involving all levels of sexual offences, including historic child rape.

He is often instructed to appear in Jury Inquests on behalf of public bodies, medical staff or families of the deceased. He also undertakes regulatory and health and safety work on behalf of companies.

Jason has wide experience of police disciplinary matters and is frequently invited to train C.I.D officers and the Department of Work and Pensions on court skills, duties of disclosure and advocacy and also lectures on a variety of CPD accredited courses on criminal law.

Cases of Interest:
Defence

R v Donovan – historic rape of 11 year-old

R v Gardner – double death by dangerous driving

R v Patel – £1.5million VAT fraud relating to a nightclub chain

R v Campell and others – multi-handed firearms and kidnap case involving rival drug gangs

R v Howley and others – Led junior in a 16-week, £12.5 million conspiracy to defraud trial involving various banks and the Welsh Development Agency

R v Dawson – £1million Arson with intent to endanger life (security guard at Topshop alleged to have set fire to the store during opening hours)

R v Gayle – Led junior in an eight-week, multi-handed conspiracy to supply class A drugs

R v Walker – a six-week, multi-handed conspiracy to import class A drugs from Jamaica via international couriers involving the F.B.I, D.E.A, H.M Customs and various Police constabularies

R v Searle – campaign of serial kidnap and rape of prostitutes in Wiltshire

R v Jones – defence in a multi-handed conspiracy to supply Class C drugs (cannabis farms yielding enough cannabis to last a single user 112 years)
R v Quincey Led junior. Murder

Defence of a Head of Child Care Services of a local authority charged with sexual offences against children.

Prosecution

Operation Hook – eight-defendant conspiracy to supply Class A & C drugs involving issues of covert surveillance and Interception of Communication (RIPA)

Operation Deft – eight-defendant conspiracy to supply Class A & B drugs involving issues of international money laundering, firearms and P.I.I.

Conspiracy to commit armed robbery – London drugs gangs coming to Bristol to steal drugs from rival gangs, involving P.I.I. and compellability of witnesses

R v Smith – historic sexual abuse (1968-1972) of three siblings

R v Gamban – aggravated burglary

R v Chaplin – rape

R v Griffiths – sexual offences of incitement, grooming and breach of trust by a teacher on a 15 year old pupil

Employment
Jason Taylor undertakes a variety of work for applicants and respondents in the Employment tribunal including unfair dismissal and redundancy, discrimination on the grounds of sex, race and disability and claims for breach of contract and wrongful dismissal.

Albion Chambers, Broad Street, Bristol BS1 1DR
T: 0117 927 2144
F: 0117 926 2569
jason.taylor@albionchambers.co.uk

Clerks:
Crime: Nick Jeanes T 0117 311 0307
Civil: Michael Harding T 0117 311 0302



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