About James Shaw Willes
Lived 1814 – 1872 (aged 57–58). James Shaw Willes was a British judge.
Sir James Shaw Willes (1814 – 2 October 1872) was a Judge of the English Court of Common Pleas.
Willes was born in Cork. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he took his BA degree in 1836, and later received an honorary LLD in 1860. He was called to the English Bar at Inner Temple in 1840,
Willes is arguably most famous as the judge in Phillips v Eyre (1870) LR 6 QB and for the double actionability rule which arose from that case.
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Who was James Shaw Willes?
Irish born judge (1814–1872)
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James Shaw Willes was born in 1814.
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James Shaw Willes died in 1872.
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James Shaw Willes was a judge.
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James Shaw Willes was British.
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