Sir Michael Alexander Geddes Sachs (8 April 1932 – 25 September 2003) was a British jurist who was the first solicitor to be appointed as a High Court judge.
[3] After qualifying as a solicitor, and then undertaking National Service, he returned to Slater Heelis in 1959 to work on crime, family, personal injury and common law matters.
Taylor later claimed he had been targeted for malicious prosecution, as a way to smear his friend, the former Deputy Chief Constable of Greater Manchester John Stalker, who had been conducting an inquiry into the Royal Ulster Constabulary "shoot to kill" policy.
[1][2] He was appointed a High Court judge on 21 June 1993,[6] and assigned to the Queen's Bench Division, receiving the customary knighthood on 27 October 1993.
[1][2] In 1997, after the trial of a former psychiatric nurse for the manslaughter of her handicapped 14-year-old daughter, he passed an 18-month suspended sentence and supervision order.