The Heiress vs the Establishment : Mrs. Campbell's Campaign for Legal Justice / Nancy L. Backhouse, Constance Backhouse.
2005
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Title
The Heiress vs the Establishment : Mrs. Campbell's Campaign for Legal Justice / Nancy L. Backhouse, Constance Backhouse.
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Imprint
Vancouver ; Toronto : University of British Columbia Press, [2005]
Copyright
©2004
Description
1 online resource (344 p.) : 42 b&w illustrations.
Series
Law and Society.
Formatted Contents Note
Front Matter
Contents
Illustrations
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Cast of Characters
Introduction
Where Angels Fear to Tread
Prologue
The Lost Will
The Plundered Estate
Counsel Lay Down Their Brief
My Struggle For England
Downing Street: The Privy Council
Epilogue
Appendix: Sequence of Legal Proceeding
Notes
Index
Publications of the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
Law and Society Series
Contents
Illustrations
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Cast of Characters
Introduction
Where Angels Fear to Tread
Prologue
The Lost Will
The Plundered Estate
Counsel Lay Down Their Brief
My Struggle For England
Downing Street: The Privy Council
Epilogue
Appendix: Sequence of Legal Proceeding
Notes
Index
Publications of the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
Law and Society Series
Summary
In 1922, Elizabeth Bethune Campbell, a Toronto-born socialite, unearthed what she initially thought was an unsigned copy of her mother's will, designating her as the primary beneficiary of the estate. The discovery snowballed into a fourteen-year-battle with the Ontario legal establishment, as Mrs. Campbell attempted to prove that her uncle, a prominent member of Ontario's legal circle, had stolen funds from her mother's estate. In 1930, she argued her case before the Law Lords of the Privy Council in London. A non-lawyer and Canadian, with no formal education or legal training, Campbell was the first woman to ever appear before them. She won. Reprinted here in its entirety, Campbell's self-published account of her campaign, Where Angels Fear to Tread, is an eloquent 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 lluminate the context and pick up the narrative where Campbell's book leaves off. Vibrantly written, this is an enthralling read. Not only a fascinating social and legal history, it's also a very good story.
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In English.
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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9780774851060
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