The most typical solutions have already been posted, so let's give a new one:
Python 2.x
list1 = [[1, 2], [3, 4], [1, 2]]
list2 = {str(v): v for v in list1}.values()
Python 3.x
list1 = [[1, 2], [3, 4], [1, 2]]
list2 = list({str(v): v for v in list1}.values())