Alexander v H. Burgoine & Sons Ltd

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
CourtCourt of Appeal
Date1939
Year1939

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3 cases
  • Mayes v Mayes
    • United Kingdom
    • Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division
    • Invalid date
    ...it seems to me to be undesirable that I should say anything about the merits of the case and I refrain from doing so. SIR JOCELYN SIMON[1940] W.N. 8, C.A. The following cases are referred to in the judgments: Alexander v. H. Burgoine & Sons Ltd. [1939] 4 All E.R. 568; [1940] W.N. 8, C.A......
  • Director of Public Prosecutions Reference No 1 of 2017
    • Australia
    • High Court (Australia)
    • 20 March 2019
    ...the history described in Mansfield, suggests that the practice was yet to emerge. The article was prompted by the decision in Alexander v H Burgoine & Sons Ltd, which concerned the propriety of counsel inviting the jury trying a civil action to dispense with the summing-up 36. The burden of......
  • Beevis v Dawson
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal
    • 7 November 1956
    ...practice, and, as Mr Platts-Mills now admits, was contrary to the law. Counsel had no right to say that to the Jury: See Alexander v. H. Burgoine & Sons Limited., 1939, 4 A.E.R. 568. 23 Nine pages later (p. 19) Mr Platts-Mills said: "Members of the Jury, you have a public duty to face p......