Kavanagh QC (TV Series)

The Burning Deck (1996)

Oliver Ford Davies: Peter Foxcott QC

Quotes 

• Peter Foxcott QC : Don't sacrifice real life on the altar of career.

  Julia Piper : I thought career was real life.

  Peter Foxcott QC : Real life? I prosecuted a boy the other week... fifteen... one of four children, each with a different father. He'd murdered the youngest... terrible case, but as he stood there in the dock, shoulders hunched against the sentence, I suddenly realized this shabby, venal, malnourished scrap of humanity had experienced more in his fifteen summers...

  [He closes his eyes in pain] 

  Peter Foxcott QC : . You understand? He was more alive than I should ever be.