Company Director/Principal
LLB/BA
johntaylor@taylorandwhitty.com.au
John completed a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws at the Australian National University in Canberra. He then commenced worked as a solicitor in Canberra City in the mid 1980’s. John then moved to Finley in 1988 and worked for Murray Lumley until 1991. He then went into partnership with Peter Whitty and formed the new firm Taylor & Whitty Solicitors.
John has had extensive experience over his 30 years of legal practice. Such experience includes civil, commercial and estate litigation, criminal law, family law, conveyancing (residential, commercial and rural), coronial inquests, negligence claims, class actions concerning water rights, victims of crime compensation and employment disputes.
John has appeared or instructed in the Local Court of New South Wales, District Court of New South Wales,Land and Environment Court of New South Wales, Coroner’s Court of New South Wales, Supreme Court of New South Wales, Magistrates Court of Victoria, County Court of Victoria, Family Court, Federal Magistrates Court, Court of Appeal of New South Wales and the High Court of Australia.
John has enjoyed various sports throughout his life including active participation in tennis, basketball, football, soccer, hockey, cricket, squash, table-tennis and swimming. More recently his sporting efforts are focused on basketball, squash and golf. John is a St Kilda Saints tragic and he hopes for at least one other Saint’s premiership in his lifetime.