The legal answer for just about everything is "it depends." I think that answer also applies when one is critiqeuing the institution. Some cases are handled properly, well, and the outcome is just. I think it's accurate to say that a majority of civil actions are handled that way.
But on social issues (immoral and perverted actions turned into constitutional imperitives at the whim of the courts; stripping people of the means of force of violence), and on some civil matters, and on some criminal cases, the process is subverted.
It's tough to figure out how to stand and view an institution like that - that has quite a bit of good, and quite a bit of bad. I wouldn't reject all of the institution, but it certainly doesn't deserve the degree of respect and obedience that it thinks it's entitled to.
I absolutely agree with your sentiment. The law is all too often a tool used to perpetrate an injustice.
Yes, I agree, there are many well reasoned settlements, verdicts or other outcomes.
The cases we speak of are those that make the news, sometimes primarily because of the circumvention of justice.
I see where the blade runner gets only 5 years for slaughtering his girlfriend but will likely serve less than one year of that term.