His Honour Alan Broughton Taylor (born 23 Jan 1939) is a British

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. Alan Taylor graduated from

Birmingham University , mottoeng = Through efforts to heights , established = 1825 – Birmingham School of Medicine and Surgery1836 – Birmingham Royal School of Medicine and Surgery1843 – Queen's College1875 – Mason Science College1898 – Mason Univers ...

with an

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degree in

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in 1960, going on to undertake postgraduate research at Brasenose College, Oxford. He was called to the

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in 1961. Alan Taylor was appointed as a Circuit Judge, sitting on the Midland Circuit, in 1991. He became the Legal Member of the

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, Restricted Patients Panel, in 2001. He was a president of the

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. In his foreword to

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book ''Crime And Civil Society Can We Become A More Law-Abiding People?'' (2005) Taylor stated his belief that:

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Taylor, Alan Living people 1939 births Alumni of the University of Birmingham Members of Gray's Inn 20th-century English judges 21st-century English judges