The heiress vs the establishment : Mrs. Campbell's campaign for legal justice / Constance Backhouse and Nancy L. Backhouse.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Backhouse, Constance, 1952-

Contributor:

Backhouse, Nancy.

Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History.

Series:

Law and society series (Vancouver, B.C.)

Law and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Campbell, Elizabeth Louisa Bethune--Trials, litigation, etc.

Campbell, Elizabeth Louisa Bethune.

Howland, Elizabeth Mary Rattray, Lady, 1840?-1924--Will.

Howland, Elizabeth Mary Rattray.

Inheritance and succession--Ontario.

Inheritance and succession.

Breach of trust--Ontario.

Breach of trust.

Physical Description:

xxii, 321 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Heiress versus the establishment

Place of Publication:

Vancouver : Published for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History by UBC Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contains:

Where angels fear to tread.

ISBN:

0-7748-5106-6

OCLC:

54774642

Bound With:

With: Where angels fear to tread / by Elizabeth Bethune Campbell. Boston [Mass.] : St. John's Rectory, [1940]