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Is there such justice when you cop it badly out East? (6)

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I believe the answer is:

poetic

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'is there such justice when you' is the definition.
I can't tell whether this definition defines the answer.

'cop it badly out east?' is the wordplay.
'badly' indicates anagramming the letters.
'out' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'east?' becomes 'E' (synonyms).
'cop'+'it'='copit'
'copit' is an anagram of 'potic'.
'potic' placed around 'e' is 'POETIC'.

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(Other definitions for poetic that I've seen before include "Beautiful - imaginative" , "like Byron's" , "Lyrical like verse" , "Lyrical or romantic" , "Relating to verse" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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