Click here to read the LRC article. 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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- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 346.71305/2/092
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- n-cn-on
- ISBN
- 9780774851060 0774810521
- LCCN
- KE237.C36
- LCCN Item number
- B234 2004eb
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- Original cataloging agency
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- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (xxii, 321 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)jme00319286 (OCoLC)70717884 (CaOOCEL)404230
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Title proper/short title
- Mrs. Campbell's campaign for legal justice
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Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Contents 6
- Notes 255
- Illustrations 8
- Preface 12
- Acknowledgments 14
- Cast of Characters 20
- Introduction 26
- WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD 48
- Prologue 54
- Book One: THE LOST WILL 60
- Book Two: THE PLUNDERED ESTATE 76
- Book Three: COUNSEL LAY DOWN THEIR BRIEF 104
- Book Four: MY STRUGGLE FOR ENGLAND 122
- Book Five: DOWNING STREET: THE PRIVY COUNCIL 135
- Epilogue: THE LITIGATION CONTINUES ... AND CONTINUES ... AND CONTINUES 188
- Appendix: Sequence of Legal Proceedings 250
- Index 336
