Edward Ransome (Stuart Wilson) is a radical lawyer who has recently joined the practice. He might be deemed as a dogooder in this very 1970s looking episode.
Ransome's cavalier attitude especially his romantic attitude towards the working classes puts him in a collision course with David Main.
The first is a medical negligence case. Hilda Walker was left widowed as her husband died waiting at the hospital for urgent medical treatment. There is an offer to settle but Ransome wants to take the fight to the courts. Maine is outraged as there is always a risk that Hilda could lose her case.
Then there is hardened criminal Ernest Leggatt. He was involved in a robbery but ended up killing someone in the act. Leggatt is willing to plead guilty for the robbery but kind of blames the decreased for his fate. Again something Maine regards as a risky manoeuvre.
You really do think that Ransome is not going to be in the firm for long. There is nothing wrong with a zeal for social justice but here he comes across as deluded.
However as actor Robert Downey Jr once observed when he himself was imprisoned for drugs. When he went inside, he thought he would be amongst the oppressed, the people who were beaten down by the system. I guess that might have been due to all the drugs he was taking.
After he left prison, he wryly noted that there were very good reasons why some of the people were in jail and deserved to be locked up.
Ransome's cavalier attitude especially his romantic attitude towards the working classes puts him in a collision course with David Main.
The first is a medical negligence case. Hilda Walker was left widowed as her husband died waiting at the hospital for urgent medical treatment. There is an offer to settle but Ransome wants to take the fight to the courts. Maine is outraged as there is always a risk that Hilda could lose her case.
Then there is hardened criminal Ernest Leggatt. He was involved in a robbery but ended up killing someone in the act. Leggatt is willing to plead guilty for the robbery but kind of blames the decreased for his fate. Again something Maine regards as a risky manoeuvre.
You really do think that Ransome is not going to be in the firm for long. There is nothing wrong with a zeal for social justice but here he comes across as deluded.
However as actor Robert Downey Jr once observed when he himself was imprisoned for drugs. When he went inside, he thought he would be amongst the oppressed, the people who were beaten down by the system. I guess that might have been due to all the drugs he was taking.
After he left prison, he wryly noted that there were very good reasons why some of the people were in jail and deserved to be locked up.