The Brief

Henry Farmer is defending train driver Mick Westlake in a trial for manslaughter. Mick is accused of answering his mobile phone and running a red signal, resulting in the train colliding with an oncoming goods train, killing nine commuter passengers on board.

Henry Farmer is defending Dan Otway, a young man accused of murdering his mother. Dan refuses to plead guilty, as his mother Bridget was the center of his universe, having never spent a night apart from her in all his 22 years due to his Asperger's Syndrome. But if he didn't kill his mother, who did?

Henry and Cleo Steyn QC are defending a beautiful, young nurse accused of killing an elderly man who changed his will in her favor two days before he died. The prosecution says nurse Rae administered too much morphine on several occasions claiming sinister motive, but Henry argues that Alice Rae won't get a fair trial, as the tabloid press has already acted as judge and jury in the case.

After the collapse of a rape trial against defendant Michael Gilbraith, Rachel Browning decides to bring a civil action against the man she claims attacked her. Solicitor Jimmy Collina seeks Henry's help with the case, pitting him against Cleo Steyn QC, who was retained by Gilbraith after the original trial.