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Season 1

  • S01E01 Episode 1

    • March 17, 2014
    • BBC One

    A mother fights to sort out contact with her children, there's a challenge to rehiring former RUC officers and a case is heading for court seeking compensation for people living under electricity pylons.

  • S01E02 Episode 2

    • March 24, 2014
    • BBC One

    Second in a ground-breaking documentary series following some of the country's leading legal minds. For the first time ever in Northern Ireland cameras have access to the working of our courts. Over 15 months we have unprecedented access to the barristers, their cases and the court system. A business takes Derry City Council to court for an unpaid bill, a man injured at work is seeking damages, and we witness how one top barrister prepares to fight a major criminal case.

  • S01E03 Episode 3

    • March 31, 2014
    • BBC One

    Third in a ground-breaking documentary series following some of the country's leading legal minds. For the first time ever in Northern Ireland cameras have access behind the scenes of our courts. Over 15 months we have unprecedented access to the barristers, their cases and the court system. A man claims compensation after being badly gored by a bull, a woman sues her international lawyer after a property deal goes wrong and a man hurt at work seeks damages for injuries and lost wages.

  • S01E04 Episode 4

    • April 7, 2014
    • BBC One

    Fourth in a ground-breaking documentary series following some of the country's leading legal minds. For the first time ever in Northern Ireland cameras have access behind the scenes of our courts. Over 15 months we have unprecedented access to the barristers, their cases and the court system. Families take part in a harrowing public inquiry to find out why their children died in hospital, a woman finally gets back some of the money she lost when a property investment went wrong, and we follow a young barrister as he tries to build his practice.

  • S01E05 Episode 5

    • April 14, 2014
    • BBC One

    Final episode in a groundbreaking documentary series following some of the country's leading legal minds. For the first time ever in Northern Ireland, cameras have access behind the scenes of our courts. Over 15 months we have unprecedented access to the barristers, their cases and the court system. A local barrister takes the Department of Justice to the Supreme Court in London, there's a court battle to save an historic Belfast building, a religious discrimination case heads to a tribunal and we meet the next generation of top barristers.