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Silk (2011)First aired 22 Feb 2011Martha Costello's defence work makes representing a client different from approving of them. Maxine Peake gives the argument conviction while chambers politics, resources and professional ambition keep interfering. The cases have satisfying courtroom energy, but the stronger attraction is watching…0
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Criminal Justice (2008)First aired 30 Jun 2008The 2008 British anthology follows an accused person through a system whose ordinary routines can become frightening. Ben Whishaw leads the first story; the second changes the central case and perspective. Its sustained attention to custody, preparation and vulnerability makes the verdict only part…0
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The Night Of (2016)First aired 10 Jul 2016An arrest reorganises Nasir's family, his prospects and how strangers interpret him long before a court reaches its decision. The American miniseries gives John Turturro's lawyer an unglamorous mixture of persistence and practical limitations. The institutional pressure is the point: being able to…0
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The Practice (1997)First aired 4 Mar 1997The Boston defence firm's financial insecurity makes an awkward client or an ethically difficult case hard to dismiss as somebody else's problem. Arguments about what the job requires continue after the courtroom scene. The 1997 American series is the older procedural anchor here, with a large…0
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The Good Fight (2017)First aired 19 Feb 2017Diane Lockhart's move into a Black-led Chicago firm makes familiar assumptions about status and institutional fairness harder to maintain. Its courtroom stories often turn into arguments about power, work and political responsibility. This American spin-off becomes deliberately surreal and fiercely…0
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For Life (2020)First aired 11 Feb 2020Aaron Wallace works as a lawyer while imprisoned, making his own fight for freedom inseparable from representing other people inside. The American drama has an inspirational, sometimes simplified structure, yet the clients' dependence on access and persistence gives the legal work concrete stakes.…0
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Extraordinary Attorney Woo (2022)First aired 29 Jun 2022Woo Young-woo's first job at a South Korean firm brings courtroom problems into contact with workplace prejudice and her own growing independence. Park Eun-bin makes the professional relationships a substantial pleasure alongside the cases. The exceptional-memory premise is a particular fictional…0
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Juvenile Justice (2022)First aired 25 Feb 2022A South Korean juvenile-court judge begins with firm punitive instincts, then encounters cases whose family and institutional histories resist a simple account of responsibility. The series takes young people's offences seriously without leaving the adults around them outside the frame. Its…0
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The Twelve (2022)First aired 21 Jun 2022The 2022 Australian adaptation lets the jurors' private lives affect what they hear and whom they believe. That wider viewpoint makes reaching a verdict a social and emotional task as well as a legal one. It is a murder-trial drama with substantial personal melodrama, particularly effective when…0
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The Split (2018)First aired 24 Apr 2018Divorce work puts a legal outcome beside children, money and relationships that must somehow continue afterwards. The British family-law drama also gives its lawyers private lives that complicate their professional confidence. Its wealthy clients and romantic entanglements are heightened, but the…0