8 épisodes
(10 h)
Épisodes
S4 E1 • Memento Mori
Kavanagh defends a doctor accused of murdering his wife. Although the prosecution has several witnesses who provide evidence, the accused maintains his innocence. After the verdict, however, Kavanagh learns of an ironic twist.
Première diffusion : 17 mars 1998
S4 E2 • Care in the Community
Kavanagh heads to his hometown of Bolton to defend a man who, together with his partner, is accused of murdering their 14-month-old daughter. Kavanagh's tactics have to change however when it becomes clear that the young couple are telling quite different stories.
Première diffusion : 24 mars 1998
S4 E3 • Briefs Trooping Gaily
Kavanagh defends a woman accused of killing her husband. Although she admits to killing him for repeatedly beating her, Kavanagh urges her not to admit it in court. Meanwhile,a colleague of Kavanagh's asks him to represent him before the Conduct Committee when he's accused of looking at the wrong brief.
Première diffusion : 31 mars 1998
S4 E4 • Bearing Witness
Kavanagh represents a Jehovah's Witness mother when a hospital wants her 13-year-old son to have a blood transfusion that will save his life. When the mother refuses, Luke is made a ward of court and the hospital seeks judicial permission to go ahead with the transfusion. The hospital wins its action, and Luke is given a transfusion. Escaping from hospital with the help of his mother, Luke dies shortly afterward. When his father, prompted by a national newspaper, brings an action for manslaughter against his estranged wife, Kavanagh is called as a reluctant witness.
Première diffusion : 7 avril 1998
S4 E5 • The Innocency of Life
Kavanagh is asked to defend a Reverend accused of sexual harassment by a recently widowed parishioner. When Kavanagh begins to make inquiries regarding the death of the victim's husband, she mysteriously withdraws her complaint against the Reverend and the case collapses. Later Kavanagh discovers that she has become engaged to the vicar and finds himself defending her against charges that she murdered her husband.
Première diffusion : 14 avril 1998
S4 E6 • Dead Reckoning
When a trawler sinks off the coast of North Yorkshire, taking the lives of five people, an enquiry establishes that the boat was in disrepair. Kavanagh is on the team prosecuting the boat owner and father of one of the victims, charged with five counts of manslaughter. He must counter the owner's defence that a Royal Navy submarine surfaced near the trawler and capsized her.
Première diffusion : 21 avril 1998
S4 E7 • Ceremony of Innocence
A senior Labour MP, Barbara Watkins, is accused of sexual abuse by petty criminal Stephen Boxer. The alleged incident had taken place fifteen years earlier, when Boxer was only 15 years of age. The case comes to court and Kavanagh defends Watkins. Witness Kavanagh's rapier-like cross-examination technique in the quest for truth. This episode was never broadcast - the storyline became 'Time of Need' in S5
S4 E8 • Seasons of Mist
Kavanagh and Aldermarten act for ""The Turnbrook Two,"" serving life sentences for a double murder in a bungled armed robbery in 1985. Kavanagh represents Jimmy Cracken and Aldermarten, Neil Hastings. This episode was never broadcast