Overview

A new government takes power with a drastically reduced majority. But the ambitious young Home Secretary has a plan to bring the legal establishment to heel and bypass Parliament altogether. Anthony Andrews says of writer and barrister John Cooper (who wrote the ITV series The Advocates): "John is writing about a world he knows intimately. It is a most original and exciting screenplay and extremely prescient in view of the current controversies surrounding the judiciary." Producer Simon Passmore Director Jim Goddard

Top Cast

Anthony Andrews

Christopher Edwardes

Bernard Hill

Martin Allport

Tom Baker

Sir Lionel Sweeting

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John Rowe

Sir Terence Calthorpe

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Kate Lynn Evans

Elizabeth Edwardes

T. P. McKenna

Judge Selwyn

George Harris

John Nixon

Tim Preece

Professor Hamer

Roger Brierley

Mr Justice Wellbeck

John Stratton

Mr Justice Braxton

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John Southworth

Mr Justice Cranley

Richard Bebb

Lord Chief Justice Hipwood