This article, inspired by Dickens's reading of reports sent to him by Wills of a barrister's evidence to a Parliamentary Select Committee on County Courts (May 1854), reads like a sort of pendant or postscript to Bleak House, though Dickens believed wehn he sent article to Wills that it was 'a new subject with us' (i.e. in HW; he was forgetting an earlier article on County Courts called 'Law at a Low Price' by Wills and W. T. Haly published in the issue for 18 May 1850).
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