Alan Taylor (circuit judge)

Alan Broughton Taylor (born 23 Jan 1939) is a British judge.^[1]

Alan Taylor graduated from Birmingham University with an LLB degree in law in 1960. He was called to the Bar by Gray’s Inn in 1961.^[2]

Alan Taylor was appointed as a Circuit Judge, sitting on the Midland Circuit, in 1991. He became the Legal Member of the Mental Health Review Tribunal, Restricted Patients Panel, in 2001. He was a president of the Mental Health Review Tribunal from 2004 to 2009. His Honour Alan Taylor retired from the Circuit Bench on the Midland Circuit in 2005. He was a part-time Deputy Circuit Judge on the Northern Circuit from 2005 to 2007.^[3][4]

In his foreword to Civitas' Crime And Civil Society Can We Become A More Law-Abiding People?^[5] Taylor stated his belief that:

Regrettably, this study shows that the courts have little effect when it comes to preventing people from reoffending. Crime will only be reduced by a vastly increased rate of detection and by targeting children in deprived and vulnerable situations in order to compensate for the absent role models in their lives.

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