Paul Taylor was called to the Bar in 1985.  The main areas of his practice are fraud (bank fraud, DTI offences, VAT fraud, Inland Revenue offences, money laundering, DWP fraud), drugs cases and terrorist cases. 

He appears in Courts throughout England and Wales.

Recent cases include:

• R v Zardad (the first War Crimes trial to be heard in the United Kingdom)                                                                                                                
• Operation Fusion (a bank fraud investigated by the Anti-Terrorist Squad at Scotland Yard)
• Operation Sepulchre (a drug smuggling conspiracy resulting in the largest Class A importations into the North West)
• R v Hussain and Ali ($500 million hawala money laundering case)
• R v Altimimi (the first AQ related terrorism trial in the North West)
• R v Colin Gunn and others (police corruption case surrounding a murder investigation)
• Operation Overamp ( R v Hassan Mutegombwa - fundraising for terrorism - one of the group which included the 21 July 2005 bombers)
• R v Waheed Ali and others (three men from Beeston alleged to have asssisted the 7th July 2005 bombings)
• R v Chrisanthakumar (the first prosecution in the UK for terrorism allegations concerning the Tamil Tigers)