The great English novelist Charles Dickens, based on his experiences, had a very dark view of lawyers and the legal system generally. In his novel, Oliver Twist we find the oft-quoted phrase: “The law is an ass.”
In Dickens’ view, the law no longer served the purpose of justice and fairness, but had become corrupted by arbitrariness so that it served the interests of the few, not the many.
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