A Brief History of the English Court of Chancery

Research has revealed that english common law lawyers had a profound and largely negative impact. Solicitors were notorious as speculative railway share promoters. Judges were publicly accused of favoritism. And the parliamentary bar ran a nice little racket, ively selling statutary approval for new rail lines. Does history essentially refute the legal origin's thesis that the common law trumps all other systems? Not quite. There remains compelling evidence that it could and did adapt to the changes in the industrial age.