Whilst Clive Reader celebrates his taking silk but Martha hits the bottle, angry that inspector Wright has lied in court to convict her client Johnny Foster. Later David, the teen-aged son of chambers head Alan Cowdrey, is arrested for causing the death of a policeman , one of six who kettled him during a demonstration. Martha believes David has been bullied into pleading guilty by Wright and wants Alan involved in his son's case but David is not keen to see his father. Reader and Caroline Warwick agree to help Martha, who sees on CCTV that an anonymous man spoke to David in custody but there is no record of this meeting. In court she faces Wright, this time determined to beat him but evidence comes to light which weakens Martha's crusade.
剧情介绍：
这里会聚了各种律师，他们各具身手，各显神通，Martha Costello（玛辛·佩克 Maxine Peake 饰）是一个三十多岁，独身，但照旧富于热情的辩护律师，预备请求皇家律师资历，Martha面临着极具应战的案件以及令她诧异的客户，她的信心、她的成见、她的良知以及她的信仰的极限在刑事司法零碎中被一系列的课程所检验，Clive Reader（鲁伯特·潘瑞-琼斯 Rupert Penry-Jones 饰）和Martha年龄相反，但他为人幽默，有天赋但同时也很精明，两人同时都是律师，同时都请求了皇家律师资历，在庭上的表现直接影响他们的命运，而Clive晓得如何来玩这场游戏......
终究谁最初能成为皇家律师呢?
