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- After anonymous letters, a woman's previous husband is disinterred and she is accused of murder. Defending her, Harriet is conflicted by her duty to reveal an incriminating letter the suspect had written.
- A group of three officials has to decide whether two troubled boys should stay with their mother, who runs a messy house and picks up men, or with their returned father who has limited prospects.
- Settling in to her new apartment, Harriet gets involved with a case where a rich husband damages a portrait of his wife,nude, being painted by an arrogant young artist.To avoid the scandal of a trial, parties try to settle.
- A wife is accused of feeding cheese to her ailing elderly husband, after a doctor had supposedly warned her it was one of the foods that might not agree with her husband's medications. Harriet's office has a flashy, young new partner.
- Struck-off solicitor and ex-con James Kirby persuades his former wife, Barrister Harriet Peterson to represent his old cell mate, Eddy Plater who has been charged with committing a bank robbery.
- Harriet bones up on maritime law to defend a Greek ship owner who had chartered out his boat but is still accused of responsibility for an accident with another vessel. She and Ian decide to get married.
- After an engagement is broken, the fiance brings charges against the spinster for writing a letter to his council accusing him of trying to profit off a property belonging to her family.
- Harriet's partner offers a lucrative case, an appeal to a county council decision that went against a massive development project in a rural preserve. The case pits a feudal brigadier against a shifty and inexperienced capitalist.
- A female patient of Harriet's doctor friend is caught up in a spy scandal. A Soviet defector names the patient's tenant as a major in the Red Army.
- Harriet's relationship with Dr.Moody intensifies when the husband of one of his patients (the man has been in prison) brings the doctor up on charges he has engaged in adultery with the man's wife.
- Moving to London and looking for interesting work, Harriet gets involved with a case of two young activists who advocate revolutionary violence and who were caught up with explosives after several deaths from a bombing.
- Harriet pivots between securing an appeal for her clerk's son (by using secret evidence that the Major lied years ago) and protecting a couple of young tenants from a boisterous out of control Italian landlord.
- A spoiled aristocratic couple waste the Court's time staging a bickering fest for mercenary gain.James ponders a departure.The pushy US businessman Harriet had once helped returns with a proposal.
- Paying a rare visit, Harriet's son reminds her of the divorced husband she doesn't want to talk to.In a parallel story, the woman in a popular nostalgia singing duo avoids going to court to divorce her wayward husband.
- Harriet defends a militant communist head of a pipe fitters union, who takes his men into a strike to gain pay parity with members of a rival union. The trade union leader is not afraid to be charged with contempt of court.
- Dr. Moody's partners want him out.Meanwhile Harriet takes a case in which a drug manufacturer is accused of not offering proper warning of side effects, after a man's wife dies from taking one of their tablets.
- The work load and the increased tension with Dr. Moody are starting to take a toll on Harriet's health. Nevertheless she helps a captain win a judgment in a trawler case.
- Dr.Moody starts a new job.Harriet defends the troubled 19 year old son of a chief constable,the boy is accused of rape but refuses to speak up to help his case.
- Harriet's relationship with the doctor hits an impasse. After a close call, stopped for reckless driving, she's asked to sit on a panel sentencing a railroad worker for similar thoughtless behavior. Meanwhile her QC application waits.
- Two cases: Elliot argues strenuously for a worker disabled by "contributory negligence" while Harriet helps a disturbed young lady who neglected her nanny job to leave a baby alone in a carriage.
- A surgeon is charged by his wife of "malicious wounding" whereas he calls her psychologically disturbed.Office clerk Bill feels pressured by work-obsessed Harriet's increased demands for accounting paperwork.
- A Chicago style gangster manages to intimidate any cronies who could testify to the authorities about a beating. Harriet tries to help the son of one of these cronies who is also threatened.
- The school age son of the barristers' clerk is ready to start a stint in the office when he is arrested for participating in a mugging, with three other youths, of a pompous and reactionary military man.
- A diabetic who drank liquor by mistake kills three people behind the wheel.In a parallel story, Harriet's doctor friend tries to rehabilitate a frequently incarcerated thief, without success.
- After an ambitious young policeman fails to bring a case against two ruffians who trashed a restaurant, his embittered superior brings a case of his own, against the policeman, accused of taking bribes from them.