The heiress vs the establishment
Subtitle: Mrs. Campbell's campaign for legal justice
By: Constance Backhouse and Nancy L. Backhouse.
Contributors: Backhouse, Nancy.; Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History.
Series: Law and society; Law and society series (Vancouver, B.C.)
Publisher: Published for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History by UBC Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Vancouver
Language: eng
Number of pages: 321
Subjects: Campbell, Elizabeth Louisa Bethune -- Trials, litigation, etc.; Howland, Elizabeth Mary Rattray, Lady, 1840?-1924 -- Will.; Campbell, Elizabeth Louisa Bethune -- Procès, instances, etc.; Campbell, Elizabeth Louisa Bethune -- Testament.; Inheritance and succession -- Ontario.; Breach of trust -- Ontario.; Successions et héritages -- Ontario.; Abus de confiance -- Ontario.
Other titles: Heiress versus the establishment
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.