The award from the charity came with a first edition of Charles Dickens' Bleak House.

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American litigation has gotten nearly as bad as the British system of justice in the 19th Century when Charles Dickens wrote the lawyer-bashing novel Bleak House.

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Dickens also satirised the law in his novels, such as Bleak House, the tale of a decades-long court case that destroys most of its participants.

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