Mrs. Campbell's campaign for legal justice
Edición de la obra The heiress vs the establishment
| Autor | Constance Backhouse |
|---|---|
| Editorial | Published for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History by UBC Press |
| Fecha de publicación | 2004 |
| Lugar | Vancouver |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 321 |
| ISBN-10 | 0774810521 |
| OCLC | 54774642 |
| LCCN | 2004463311 |
| Serie | Law and society · Law and society series (Vancouver, B.C.) |
| Número de Cutter |
B126h |
"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.