This is an intelligent and interesting series. The situations are well written and the choice of actors is superb. John Thaw is at his usual best.

The cases are riveting. Juvenile crime, prejudice, rioting, asylum, drug trafficking, and rape trials are all intelligently and compassionately presented. The clients are presented as human beings, often with tragic lives. The truth is often heartrending and surprising. This series offers a fascinating window into the British barrister system. The acting is superb, the scripts multi-layered.

This 20 year old English series is effortlessly compelling legal drama! The stories are well-crafted and move along at a goodly pace. Excellent casting makes for persuasive character portrayals. Fully satisfying in all but a single important aspect: the subtitles have been done by someone for whom English is not a native language, and who has no experience of the language as spoken in England. Jarring errors and misleading "transliterations" would be laughable if they weren't so seriously distracting.

Although the stories are not bad, every episode has a cornball domestic subplot tacked on, and it becomes grating to watch. I stopped watching the series when Kavanagh and his wife were smiling like Cheshire cats after a bedroom fadeout. It is as sweet as treacle and as predictable.

Brilliant acting throughout. A bit more melodramatic than the Morse series, but some wonderful touches of the barristers' lives here are as reminiscent of Rumpole as of Morse. Thaw's best work to date. You will be charmed and involved in the characters.

The sanctimonious undertone of several of the episodes is quite a turn-off. The writers seem, at times, to try WAY too hard to be "culturally relevant," causing some of the episodes to turn into soapbox screeching.

Hard to go wrong with John Thaw and they didn't.

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