![]() ![]() ![]() Instead, it allows predatory lawyers to take advantage of the expectations of plaintiffs, who hope they have been left property. The court of Chancery was a British legal institution which dealt primarily with disputes over inheritance, and throughout Bleak House, Dickens criticizes the Chancery court process as an archaic and unnecessarily convoluted system that does not help its clients. ![]() Many of the characters in Bleak House are involved in a notorious lawsuit known as Jarndyce and Jarndyce, which has been in dispute in the court of Chancery for several generations. ![]()
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