A chance meeting in a London restaurant led to a Portuguese woman, deemed incapable by her own lawyers, receiving the £170,000 she had been awarded after an accident in 2006.

A Portuguese law student at the University of London helped the 69-year-old illiterate Madeiran expatriate redeem the compensation held by law firm that had seized her assets, declaring her “unable to administer them,” as she was mentally unfit.

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