Justice Bebbington, who has given Harriet trouble with his mean spirited sentencing, asks her to defend him in a case of drunken driving. Something about the setup strikes her as suspicious.
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.
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.
Barrister Elliot is accused of bribing a policeman by another policeman who resents how Elliot had challenged him in previous cases.But there is more to the story than meets the eye, including a witness hiding a prostitution ring scandal.
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.
A dramatic installment: Harriet and Ian clash,when a doctor is accused of hastening the death of an accident victim, so the kidneys can be transferred to a woman who needs them, with whom the doctor has a suspicious connection.
Cajoled into doing a morning motoring group case labelled a quick guilty plea, Harriet lands up representing the defendant as not guilty, delaying an afternoon appearance at another court, resulting in a judge's tongue lashing.
Sir John's political friend, a man burgled repeatedly, builds a gun trap at his door which wounds a youth who Harriet had just gotten bail for. Sir John also proposes to her.
The law says, if someone dies as a result of a previous crime within a year and a day, the perpetrator of that crime can be tried for murder. Harriet now must defend the youth from the previous story (The Rain It Raineth) once again.