Edward Alderson (judge)
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Sir Edward Hall Alderson was an English lawyer and judge whose many judgments on commercial law helped to shape the emerging British capitalism of the Victorian era.
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Winterbottom v Wright
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Winterbottom v Wright 10 M&W 109 was an important case in English common law responsible for constraining the law's 19th-century stance on negligence.
Edward Alderson (judge)
…an explanation to the jury of the meaning and dangers of circumstantial evidence, required to be given as a separate direction to the jury until 1973. Winterbottom v. Wright (1842) – Reasserted the traditional doctrine of privity of contract to dismiss a negligence claim for damages by a pedestrian who was injured by a…
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