In Bleak House, Dickens describes the High Court of Chancery as …this most pestilent of hoary old sinners … which has its worn-out lunatic in every madhouse, and its dead in every churchyard … there is not an honourable man among its practitioners who would … not give the warning, 'Suffer any wrong that can be done to you, rather than come here!' Yet Dickens not only joined an Inn of Court himself but encouraged his son Harry to do so, following which Harry became a High Court Judge. Dickens' attitude to the Law is complex, and he has a continuing fascination with legal London as a setting for his novels. We will consider Pickwick Papers , Bleak House and A Tale of Two Cities together in order to understand further this aspect of his literary achievement.