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 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 regularly briefed in multi-handed drug conspiracies and all case involving levels of sexual offences, including historic child rape. He has considerable experience of Very High Cost Cases.
He is frequently instructed to appear in Jury Inquests, Police Disciplinary Tribunals and Courts Martial.
Jason also provides training to C.I.D officers and the Department of Work and Pensions on court skills, duties of disclosure and advocacy and, in addition, lectures on a variety of CPD accredited courses on criminal law.
Employment
Jason 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.
Cases of Interest
Defence
R v Donovan – historic rape of 11 year-old
R v Gardner – double death-by-dangerous driving with issues of causation and expert evidence
R v Patel – £1.5million VAT fraud involving a nightclub chain
R v Campbell and others – multi-handed firearms, kidnap case involving rival drug gangs
R v Howley and others – Led junior in a 16-week trial of a £12.5million conspiracy to defraud various banks and the Welsh Development Agency
R v Dawson – £1million arson with intent to endanger life. Security guard at Top Shop 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 – 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 Jones – Multi-handed conspiracy to supply Class C drugs — cannabis farms yielding enough cannabis to supply a single user for 112 years
Defending the Head of Child Care Services of a County Council on charges of child pornography.
Prosecution
Operation Hook – Eight-handed conspiracy to supply Class A and C drugs involving issues of covert surveillance and Interception of Communication (RIPA)
Operation Deft – Eight-handed conspiracy to supply Class A and B drugs involving issues of international money laundering, firearms and P.I.I.
Conspiracy to commit armed robbery – London drugs gangs travelling to Bristol to steal drugs from rival gangs, involving P.I.I and compellability of witnesses.
Historic (40+ years) familial sex abuse (current case)
Public Access:
Jason Taylor is licensed to accept work under the Public Access rules. Click here for further details about the Public Access scheme.
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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