Newton's Law

After the brilliant but beleaguered Josephine Newton finds her office set alight, seemingly by a disgruntled client, she agrees to return to the Bar, only to discover that she must defend an associate accused of murder - and she has just joined the victim's chambers.

Josephine takes the lead in a gender dysphoria case while, downstairs, Helena defends Josephine's daughter against a criminal damage charge.

Josephine and Lewis inherit a murder trial where all the evidence points to their client having clobbered the victim with a dumbbell, while Johnny and Skye are reluctantly thrown together to help defend Skye's father from an assault charge involving a decimated rose bush.

Josephine worries she's crossed over to the dark side when representing a furniture conglomerate, but manages to assist the underdog downstairs in a case that is more about athletic competition than racism.

Josephine is surprised that Whitley wants her to represent him in a property dispute, and the downstairs team make their own discoveries in what is ostensibly a simple assault case.

Josephine's asylum seeker kidnapping case is further complicated when Callum impersonates a government official, landing Josephine's witness, and himself, in hot water.

Josephine discovers that her pyromaniac ex-client didn't burn down her solicitor's office, while Lewis' defence of a sneaker thief - the son of a wealthy and absent friend - unearths a troubling drug link between the boy and her sister, Rose.

The upstairs and downstairs teams join forces in a class action, taking on a pharmaceutical company that tried to cover up the side effects resulting from their drug trials.