Justice

- Season 3

(1974)

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.

With news Sir John is moving on, the barristers vote on a new Head of Chambers. Meanwhile Harriet defends a feisty truck driver accused of killing a pedestrian, before an openly biased judge.

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.

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.

A politician friend of Dr. Moody in the spotlight,with a tribunal Harriet assists, over an industrial plant the parliamentarian helped get built, from which a chemical leak has taken three victims.

Two cases: Elliot argues strenuously for a worker disabled by "contributory negligence" while Margaret 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.

Elliot tries to help an Indian student threatened with deportation, while in a parallel case Harriet helps a nosy American tycoon prove that his daughter was part of a plot to steal his favorite painting, a Modigliani.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.