Publisher's Synopsis
The entire fifth series of the television drama starring John Thaw as Kavanagh QC, one of the country's leading criminal advocates in London, who has worked his way up from a northern working class background. In 'Previous Convictions', a jet crashes into a motocross course after the RAF mechanic who serviced it was distracted by his wife's affair with another man. But it transpires that the mechanic's negligence was all part of his wife's plan. 'The More Loving One' tells the story of a young couple have moved to London from the country to put their past of petty crime and drug use behind them. But an explosion leads to the young man being charged with the murder of his girlfriend, who it later turns out was carrying their child. In 'Time of Need', a female junior minister at the Home Office is charged with indecent assault on a juvenile. Convinced that she is the victim of a police conspiracy, she brings a case of malicious prosecution against the police, and manages to persuade a reluctant Kavanagh to represent her. In 'End Games', Kavanagh represents a man who was wrongly jailed for armed robbery as a result of the negligence of his lawyer, the late Sir Ronald Tibbit QC - Kavanagh's former employer. Grounds for an appeal arise in the form of a suicide note exonerating the accused man left by one of the jailed armed robbers, and notes produced by the widowed Lady Tibbit written by her deceased husband proving that he acted negligently. The two-hour special, 'The End of Law', sees Kavanagh representing a business man charged the murder of a beautiful young Hungarian computer science graduate after her body is discovered in his hotel room. Her role in the man's life is difficult to determine - is she a girlfriend, a prostitute or maybe even a spy?
