威爾基•柯林斯(Wilkie Collins)於一八五一年取得律師資格後，並未以律師的身分投入法律實踐領域，而是充分利用他在林肯律師學院(Linconln’s Inn)所受的專業訓練，並將其法律學識注入他的寫作生涯。在柯林斯的多部作品中，可見作家反覆描繪在法律上被邊緣化的主要角色、他們與律師之間普遍令人失望的諮商情形、以及他們為了尋求司法之外的救濟途徑而展開的曲折探索，這點巧妙地揭示了十九世紀英國司法體系中存在著一項至關重要的缺陷—法律正義和道德正義之間的分歧。本文旨在探討柯林斯最著名的小說《白衣女子》(The Woman in White) (1859-1860)中兩種正義概念的差距以及律師與委託人的關係。本文第一章將針對法律正義和道德正義的概念，提供理論背景的概述。第二章將先分析《白衣女子》中的三位律師文森•吉爾摩(Vincent Gilmore)、威廉•凱爾(William Kyrle)、梅里曼先生(Mr. Merriman)分別如何回應「分歧」並與他們的委託人互動。之後再討論沃爾特•哈特萊(Walter Hartright)如何面對「分歧」並接替律師們為其委託人找回正義。最終，本研究將證明，當法律正義和道德正義相衝突時，律師與委託人之間的有效關係或許能扮演決定性的角色，幫助受害者尋找面對不公平待遇的可能辦法，並據此恢復其應有之權利。

Being called to the bar in 1851, Wilkie Collins did not devote himself to legal practice as a barrister. Rather, he took full advantage of the professional training he had received at Lincoln’s Inn and infused his legal knowledge into his writing career. In many of Collins’s works, there is a recurring portrayal of socially marginalized main characters, their generally disappointing consultation with lawyers, and their winding quest for extrajudicial remedies which subtly reveals a crucial defect lying within the nineteenth century British juridical system—a disparity between legal justice and moral justice. The thesis will focus on the division between these two senses of justice as well as the lawyer-client relationships in the most notable novel by Collins, The Woman in White (1859-1860). In the first chapter, I will provide an overview of the theoretical background on the concepts of legal justice and moral justice. In the second chapter, I will first analyse how the lawyers—Vincent Gilmore, William Kyrle and Mr. Merriman—respond to the disparity between legal justice and moral justice and interact with their clients respectively. After that, I will probe into the way that Walter Hartright faces the disparity between legal justice and moral justice and examine how he takes over the duty from the lawyers to restore justice for his client. By so doing, this paper will demonstrate that, when legal justice comes into conflict with moral justice, an effective lawyer-client relationship may play a decisive role in helping victims find possible solutions to the injustice they face and restore the rights they deserve accordingly.

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