claim for damages by a pedestrian who was injured by a defective vehicle. Wood v Peel (1844) – in a trial to determine the winner of the Derby, Alderson ordered that the purported winner Running Rein be produced in court. The horse could not be found and the result of the race was overturned. R v. Serva and others R v. Griffin (1853) – Alderson suggested, contrary to precedent but obiter dicta, that the principle of priest-penitent privilege applied in England. Neilson v Harford (1841) – Distinguished patenting a principle (impermissible) from patenting a physical implementation of a principle (permissible) White v Bluett Knight (Clerk) v. The Marquess of Waterford Hadley v Baxendale (1854) – Defined the scope of contractual damages in English law. Blyth v Company Proprietors of the Birmingham Water Works (1856) – Introduced the concept of the reasonable person in setting judicial standards for the appropriate level of care owed to another. References Bibliography [Anon.] (1857) Law Times 31 Jan, p.255; 7 Feb, p.266 Hedley, S. (2004) "Alderson, Sir Edward Hall (bap. 1787, d. 1857)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, accessed 22 July 2007 External links The trial of Feargus O'Connor and 58 other Chartists – 1843 – a trial at which Alderson was judge 1787 births 1857 deaths 19th-century English judges English Anglicans Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Fellows of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Senior Wranglers Justices of the Common Pleas Barons of the Exchequer Knights Bachelor People from Great Yarmouth People educated at Charterhouse School