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Abstract

Abstract

            This article presents an image of failure in Chancery Court’s justice system as presented in Charles Dickens’s Bleak House. An analysis of this text aims to criticise the causes and effects from the English justice system’s ineffectiveness during the nineteenth century. Dickens has emphasised on the ‘ancient regime’ of the Chancery which existed for centuries ago. Significantly, one of the hindrances was that the court did not accommodate itself to the rapid developing society of that time. Moreover, Dickens points out another problem, such as, the lawyers whose goal is to take advantage at their clients, rather than helping them. All of these difficulties had been dragging the court backwards. The novel also presents the consequences of the ineffective justice system that results in delay of cases, loss of property, and its ill-effect on the society.