The heiress vs the establishment
Mrs. Campbell's campaign for legal justice
by Constance Backhouse
"In 1922, Elizabeth Bethune Campbell, a Toronto-born socialite, unearthed what she thought was an unsigned copy of her mother's will, designating her the primary beneficiary of the estate. It was the start of a fourteen-year battle, as Mrs. Campbell tried to prove that her mother's trusted adviser, a prominent member of Ontario's legal establishment, had stolen funds from the estate. In 1930, she argued her own case before the Law Lords of the Privy Council in London. A Canadian, with no formal education or legal training, Campbell was the first woman ever to appear before them. She won." "Reprinted here in its entirety, Campbell's self-published account of her campaign, Where Angels Fear to Tread, is a first-person view of intrigue and overlapping spheres of influence in the early-twentieth-century legal system. Constance Backhouse and Nancy Backhouse provide extensive commentary and annotations to illuminate the context and pick up the narrative where Campbell's book leaves off."--BOOK JACKET.
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The heiress vs the establishment: Mrs. Campbell's campaign for legal justice
2004, Published for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History by UBC Press
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0774810521 9780774810524
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