Jarndyce and Jarndyce

Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

by David Graeber  · 14 May 2018  · 385pp  · 123,168 words

milk it. As long ago as 1852, Charles Dickens, in Bleak House, was already making fun of the legal profession with the case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce—in which two teams of barristers keep the battle over a huge estate alive for more than a lifetime, until they’ve devoured the whole

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now not all that entirely different from the accountancy companies mis-training employees to stall the distribution of PPI payments, or Dickens’s case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce. The longer the process takes, the greater the excuse for the endless multiplication of intermediary positions, and the more money is siphoned off before

A Short History of British Architecture: From Stonehenge to the Shard

by Simon Jenkins  · 7 Nov 2024  · 364pp  · 94,801 words

. It was the outcome of fifty years of dispute over the legacy of the builder of Downing Street, a source for Dickens’s case of Jarndyce v. Jarndyce in Bleak House. The dispute escalated from an issue of architectural style to an argument over the purpose of a university, interpreted as introvert

740 Park: The Story of the World's Richest Apartment Building

by Michael Gross  · 18 Dec 2007  · 601pp  · 193,225 words

the Katonah property to pay the estate’s debts. His decision memorandum began with a reference to “prolonged and wasting” litigation that “calls to mind Jarndyce v. Jarndyce” in Charles Dickens’s Bleak House. “It is time that the executrix faces reality,” the judge said. The next accounting of the estate took

The Great Tax Robbery: How Britain Became a Tax Haven for Fat Cats and Big Business

by Richard Brooks  · 2 Jan 2014  · 301pp  · 88,082 words

that would defeat its scheme, they said, contravened the founding European Treaty and the taxman’s enquiry should be strangled at birth. An epic, Jarndyce v. Jarndyce level legal battle ensued, as the tribunal referred the knotty European law questions governing the matter to the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg. But

The Soul of a New Machine

by Tracy Kidder  · 1 Jan 1981  · 299pp  · 99,080 words

for these and other reasons computer companies often went to court. IBM virtually resided there. Everyone sued IBM, it seemed. The biggest suit, the Jarndyce v. Jarndyce of the industry, involved the Justice Department's attempt to break up IBM. Virtually an entire large law firm was created to defend IBM in

Frommer's Memorable Walks in London

by Richard Jones  · 2 Jan 1998  · 194pp  · 59,488 words

place. The Old Hall and the Court of Chancery were targeted by Dickens’s vitriolic pen in Bleak House, which told of the trial of Jarndyce v. Jarndyce, a case that had begun so long ago that no one could remember what it was about: “This is the Court of Chancery; which

The Companion Guide to London

by David Piper and Fionnuala Jervis  · 2 Jan 1970

this courtyard Dickens worked for a bit as office-boy aged fourteen, and took so decisively against the Law: one of his most spectacular episodes, Jarndyce v. Jarndyce in Bleak House, is sited in Lincoln’s Inn Old Hall. The precinct of the Inn, relatively little touched by second war damage even

The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom

by Simon Winchester  · 1 Jan 2008  · 385pp  · 105,627 words

later, in 2007, and were being painstakingly handled by Lu’s executors. The outstanding cases have been of a complexity and a duration to rival Jarndyce vs. Jarndyce. It is grimly supposed by many that the lawyers, working at a glacial rate, will consume an all too large portion of the remaining

Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism

by David Harvey  · 3 Apr 2014  · 464pp  · 116,945 words

active litigation, it turned out that the entire legacy had been absorbed by legal costs. This was the basis for the celebrated case of Jarndyce versus Jarndyce in Charles Dickens’s novel Bleak House.3 The end of the eighteenth century saw a flurry of excited commentary about the power of compound

A Man for All Markets

by Edward O. Thorp  · 15 Nov 2016  · 505pp  · 142,118 words

trades from the forty which we had not already proven to be fakes. a legal mess For the classic story of a legal mess, see Jarndyce versus Jarndyce in Bleak House by Charles Dickens. his best investment If Madoff is really gaining 20 percent a year and their best alternatives give, say

The Mystery of Charles Dickens

by A. N. Wilson  · 3 Jun 2020  · 336pp  · 97,204 words

Work in the Future The Automation Revolution-Palgrave MacMillan (2019)

by Robert Skidelsky Nan Craig  · 15 Mar 2020

The Taking of Getty Oil: Pennzoil, Texaco, and the Takeover Battle That Made History

by Steve Coll  · 12 Jun 2017  · 645pp  · 190,680 words

Adapt: Why Success Always Starts With Failure

by Tim Harford  · 1 Jun 2011  · 459pp  · 103,153 words

Start It Up: Why Running Your Own Business Is Easier Than You Think

by Luke Johnson  · 31 Aug 2011  · 166pp  · 49,639 words