In 2005, Cash successfully represented an innocent man dubbed "the lotto rapist" in error by the Sunday Mirror winning her client considerable damages.
[5] For her legal work, the British edition of Vogue includes Cash as one of the 50 women of the age, alongside the likes of Michelle Obama and the Queen.
[citation needed] In September 2008, Tatler featured Cash as one of ten top up-and-coming Tories, tipping her as a future Housing Minister.
[3] In September 2009, she was profiled in a list of "rising stars" of the Conservative party for The Daily Telegraph, who described her as a "Eurosceptic with a sharp mind".
[10] An article in The Sunday Telegraph in October 2009 reported "Some high-profile women are already installed in winnable seats: Louise Bagshawe, Annunziata Rees-Mogg, Priti Patel, Laura Sandys and Joanne Cash will all make colourful additions to the Tory benches.
Shortly afterwards Cash tendered her resignation as candidate, but the Conservatives did not accept it, and she continued to campaign for Westminster North until the election in May.
[9] Cash failed to gain the new seat from the incumbent Labour member for Regent's Park and Kensington North, Karen Buck.
Friends who attended their exchange of vows "included Ed Vaizey and Michael Gove, Viscount and Viscountess Rothermere, Stuart Rose and Kirstie Allsopp".