Bleak House

...which gives to monied might the means abundantly of wearying out the right, which so exhausts finances, patience, courage, hope, so overthrows the brain and breaks the heart, that there is not an honourable man among its practitioners who would not give—who does not often give—the warning, "Suffer any wrong that can be done you rather than come here!"

- Bleak House, Charles Dickens,

There are many pleasant fictions of the law in constant operation, but there is not one so pleasant or practically humorous as that which supposes every man to be of equal value in its impartial eye, and the benefits of all laws to be equally attainable by all men, without the smallest reference to the furniture of their pockets.

— Nicholas Nickleby, Charles Dickens

see also ...the Anglo-Saxon system seems impossibly skewed in favor of wealthy individuals

Много есть приятных фикций, сопровождающих проведение закона в жизнь, но самой приятной и в сущности самой юмористической является та, что полагает всех людей равными перед беспристрастным его оком, а благие плоды всех законов равно достижимыми для всех людей, независимо от содержимого их карманов. --Чарльз Диккенс. Жизнь и приключения Николаса Никльби