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| Maxine Peake | ... | Martha Costello QC / ... 18 episodes, 2011-2014 | |
| Rupert Penry-Jones | ... | Clive Reader / ... 18 episodes, 2011-2014 | |
| Neil Stuke | ... | Billy Lamb / ... 18 episodes, 2011-2014 | |
| Theo Barklem-Biggs | ... | Jake Milner 18 episodes, 2011-2014 | |
| John Macmillan | ... | John Bright / ... 18 episodes, 2011-2014 | |
| Alex Jennings | ... | Alan Cowdrey QC / ... 13 episodes, 2011-2014 | |
| Frances Barber | ... | Caroline Warwick QC 12 episodes, 2012-2014 | |
| Amy Wren | ... | Bethany Brassington 12 episodes, 2012-2014 | |
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A six-part series about life at the Bar, the dilemmas and problems that modern day barristers have to face, and what it means to become a silk.
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I have only viewed series 1. This is obviously a very high quality production, beautifully shot. Well-acted too. The problem lies with the writing. A bit too formulaic for my taste with the writer starting a number of subplots and having them all neatly resolve in the last 30 minutes of the final episode of the series. But that aside, I think it presents a fairly good picture of a barrister's life from pupillage right up through a QC and head of chambers.
I almost bailed in the first 10 minutes of the first episode however when Martha visits her client in the cells and asks him "tell me straight now, did you do it?"
As every viewer of Rumpole of the Bailey knows, you NEVER ask the client if he did it. Why? In case he tells you he did. As an officer of the court you cannot stand up and present your client as innocent if you know that he is guilty. You must withdraw from the case and thus lose your fee.