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Tuesday, December 01, 2009

Law - "Legally Blonde" in Britain

The headline to the story in the Nov. 13th issue of the British paper, The Daily Mail, reads "Beautician turns barrister to win David and Goliath High Court battle with construction giant." It begins:

Georgina Blackwell makes an unlikely candidate to stand up in front of a judge and take on seasoned lawyers in the High Court.

As she herself points out, she's a young, blonde beautician from Essex.

But when her mother's home and business were put at risk in an access dispute with one of the country's biggest homebuilders, the 23-year-old decided she had to fight back.

Posted by Marcia Oddi on December 1, 2009 08:54 AM
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