Solicitors back Taylor on 'knee-jerk' laws claim
CRIMINAL lawyers have come out in support of Lord Chief Justice Taylor after his attack on the Home Office’s “barrage” of criminal justice legislation. Anthony Burton, senior partner at London-based Simon Muirhead Burton, mirrored Lord Taylor’s sentiments when he said: “We reject the knee- jerk piecemeal draconian changes brought about by a party political panic.” […]