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A condition where the legal system—designed to protect rights and ensure justice—becomes an instrument of oppression through its own complexity, rigidity, or capture by powerful interests. Instead of serving people, the law serves itself: endless procedures, technicalities, and costs make justice inaccessible to the poor while shielding the wealthy. The tyranny lies in the gap between law’s promise of equality and its reality as a labyrinth that crushes ordinary people. It is not lawlessness but law turned against the human spirit.
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