In describing the legal system of the Utopians, More is indirectly leveling a critical attack against the English system with which he was familiar and of which he was a part as a lawyer and a judge. By showing what the one system was, he was exposing to his alert readers what the other system was not. It is clear that he was here voicing the sympathy he had felt for simple people caught in the vast web of legal complications and was also venting some of his pent-up indignation over the injustices he had seen perpetrated through the clever manipulations of unscrupulous lawyers.
