Andrew Taylor was born in England. His documented professional life has taken place within the legal system of England and Wales, where solicitors are admitted to practise and trained through specialist institutions such as the College of Law.
Taylor's legal education is linked to the College of Law in Guildford, Surrey. The College of Law was created in 1962 when the Law Society combined its own solicitors' training school, founded in 1903, with the tutorial firm Gibson and Weldon, established in 1876. By the time of its later growth, it had become one of the longest-established specialist providers of legal education and training in the United Kingdom.
The Guildford campus was based at Braboeuf Manor, a historic house on the Portsmouth Road, and dated its origins to the 1960s, when the institution was still known as the College of Law. The college later received university status in November 2012 and changed its name to the University of Law.
Taylor was admitted to the profession in 1984 as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales. Solicitors in England and Wales practise under a regulatory framework administered by the Solicitors Regulation Authority, and admission marks the point at which a trained lawyer may practise independently.
He is currently a partner at TETHER, where he works as a lawyer. His professional record places his career within the English legal profession, which has developed from the nineteenth-century tradition of solicitors' practice into a sector of specialist commercial, private and litigation work.
