Kavanagh QC 1995

     James Kavanagh QC (Queen’s Counsel) is one of the top barristers in Britain.  He handles challenging cases and defendants.  He is honest with his clients and he tells them right away if he thinks they don’t have a case that will win.  He has a family and rough patches require his free time as well.  (1) In Sunderland, a young former car thief is run over by a car.  The case is did the driver accidentally run over the young man or was it deliberate?  (2) A woman filmmaker is accused of producing pornography.  Is it art or is it illegal material?  (3) A divorced man has kidnapped his son because he wants full custody.  His son is making allegations against his mother’s new husband.  Are they true?

     This series of episodes is very good.  At each trial before the judge, you don’t know how the case will end?  Sometimes Kavanagh wins even though he thought it was a lost cause at the beginning.  There are also background scenes of the relationships between client and attorney, running for political office and interactions between attorneys. 

3 episodes created by Ted Childs and Susan Rogers with John Thaw, Oliver Ford Davies, Nicholas Jones, Cliff Parisi, Lisa Harrow, Tom Brodie, Daisy Bates, Anna Chancellor, Rosalind Bailey, Albert Welling, Jenny Jules, Geraldine James, Robert Ashby.

 

Note:  Imdb 7.6 out of 10, Amazon 5* with 7 reviews.  John Thaw also starred in the TV Series Inspector Morse from 1987-2000.