Lawyers (6 Parts)

Synopsis: For the first time ever in Britain a television documentary crew filmed solicitors and barristers at work with their clients, following 14 cases from 10 legal practices over the course of a year, from the first meeting between client and lawyer to the conclusion of the case. The cases range from a murder to an unfair dismissal, with total access being granted to client meetings in offices, in barristers’ chambers, in cells beneath courts and in prisons. Unique access has also been gained ot both sides of several cases: prosecution and defence in the murder case and plaintiff and respondent in a Social Services Care Order with both solicitors and barristers. Each programme cuts between three cases with story lines running from one programme to the next.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Video; Videocassette. VHS. col. 6 x 26 min.
Year of production: 1991
Availability: OUT OF DISTRIBUTION; 1994 sale: £55.00 (set) (+VAT +p&p)
Notes: Broadcast on C4 beginning 17 Sept 1991.

Granada Learning originally released this title on video, but it is no longer available from them.
Subjects: Law
Keywords: barristers; criminal law; law courts; lawyers; solicitors

Title: Police defence, The; the inquest; the burglary
Title: Murder case, The; unfair dismissal; the inquest
Title: Failed business, unfair dismissal, the murder case, The (defence and prosecution)
Title: Care order, The: the murder case
Title: Murder case, The; the meningitis case; sexual discrimination
Title: Divorce, death in the mine, industrial deafness, The

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