as an example of the futility and length of civil court cases. For example, Lord Denning, when referring to Midland Bank v Green, said, "The Green saga rivals in time and money the story of Jarndyce v Jarndyce." In the Ampthill Peerage case, where a disputed claim to a peerage involved reopening issues which had seemingly been settled in a judgment delivered fifty years earlier, Lord Simon of Glaisdale spoke strongly of the need for finality in litigation. He reminded his fellow Law Lords that Jarndyce v Jarndyce, and the pitiful character of Miss Flite, driven mad by the strain of unending litigation, were inspired by real events. "Jarndyce and Jarndyce" was used as the name of a bank in the 1996 television film The Treasure Seekers. The case is referred to (indirectly by reference to Bleak House) in the United States Supreme Court case Stern v. Marshall, a protracted lawsuit over an estate. In the film version of Virginia Woolf's novel Orlando, a court case concerning Orlando's right to his/her estate began during the reign of Queen Anne (1702–1714) is completed during the reign of Queen Elizabeth II (1952–2022). The length of the case is made humorous by the fact that Orlando, as a party to the lawsuit, remains alive for its entire duration. The case is mentioned in David Graeber’s 2018 book Bullshit Jobs as a paradigm of long-lasting court disputes which bespeak the self-serving desire of problem-solving professionals (not only lawyers but also independent auditors and financial advisers) to prolong and multiply otherwise solvable problems as a way to preserve their jobs. The 1852 case was remembered in the context of the 2006 payment protection insurance (PPI) scandal in the United Kingdom, for which “banks were found to have been unloading unwanted and often wildly disadvantageous account insurance policies on their clients.” According to Graeber, “the result was an entire new industry organized around resolving PPI claims,” leading banks to enter into contracts with professionals and firms intent on making sure the problem was never actually solved, because they eyed the “vast sums set aside by the bank to pay compensation for the PPI”. See also Justice delayed is justice denied References Citations Other sources Willful Behavior by Donna Leon, p. 308, Penguin Books, 2010 Charles Dickens as a Legal Historian by William S. Holdsworth pages 79 to 115, Yale University Press, 1928 External links Bleak House