Thomas Edward Scrutton

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Sir Thomas Edward Scrutton was an English legal text-writer and judge.

Thomas Edward Scrutton was born in London, UK. He studied at London University, and after an outstanding academic career developed a busy practice in commercial cases, and wrote The Contract of Affreightment as Expressed in Charter-parties and Bills of Lading (1886). Over a century later, this is still the standard text, while several of his other legal works remain useful. He was a judge of the King's Bench Division (1910–16) and of the Court of Appeal (1916–34).^[1]