John Taylor, Baron Taylor of Warwick

John David Beckett Taylor, Baron Taylor of Warwick in the County of Warwickshire ( born September 21, 1952 in Birmingham ) is a British lawyer and politician of the Conservative Party, who was the first color of the Conservative Party Member of the House of Lords. 1996 In January 2011 he was found during proceedings before the Crown Court, the London Borough of Southwark guilty of providing false information regarding his parliamentary expenses, and sentenced on 31 May 2011 to a term of imprisonment of twelve months, but after three months of imprisonment from dismissed the prison and placed under house arrest. During his sentencing, he was suspended from membership in the upper house.

Life

Study lawyer and local politician

Taylor, son of Jamaican immigrants, after visiting the Moseley School study began in specialized English Literature at Keele University. He then studied law at the Law School of the Moseley School and graduated in 1976 with a Bachelor of Arts. In 1978 he won the Prize of the Bar Association lawyer of Gray 's Inn and subsequently received the lawyer called to the bar.

The mid-1980s he began his political career in local politics when he was elected for the Conservative Party as a member of the Council of the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull and this remained until 1991. At the same time he was a member of the Regional Health Authority for West Thames and last 1990-1991 also Special Adviser to the Minister of the Interior and the Minister of State.

In the general election of 9 April 1992, Taylor competed unsuccessfully for the Conservative Party for a deputy seat in the House of Commons in the constituency of Cheltenham. Then he was between 1992 and 1993 a member of the Finance Council for Higher Education in Greater London, and at the same time from 1992 to 1995 member of the Independent Football Commission (Independent Football Commission, IFC).

Member of the House of Lords

1996 Taylor was that temporarily worked as a presenter on television, as a life peer with the title Baron raised Taylor of Warwick, of Warwick in the County of Warwickshire to the peerage and became a member as a member of the House of Lords.

Wide notoriety he achieved as an author of crime evidence Law Amendment ( Criminal Evidence Amendment Act 1997) and between 1998 and 2000 as Vice President of the British Film Classification Authority (British Board of Film Classification ). 1999 awarded him the University of Warwick an honorary Doctor of Law.

Baron Taylor, who in 2007 was a member of the bipartisan Information Special Committee, took effect in July 2010 as the Whip of the fraction of the Tories in the Lords back and resigned from the Association of Conservative Peers from. In January 2011 he was found during proceedings before the Crown Court, the London Borough of Southwark guilty of providing false information regarding his parliamentary expenses, and sentenced on 31 May 2011 to a term of imprisonment of twelve months, but after three months of imprisonment from dismissed the prison and placed under house arrest. In the process it was found that he had made during the Parliamentary Expenses Scandal for an allegedly he lived in Oxford Flat £ 11,277.80 claimed, though this apartment was actually inhabited by his nephew and his friend. During his sentencing, he was suspended from May 2011 to June 2012 by the membership of the House of Lords.

2012 Baron Taylor eventually lost his legal registration after he was found unworthy to be barrister.