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3 - According to the Evidence (Mar-1988)Book List in Order: 20 titles
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According to the Evidence
- Mar-1988
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Alec Morland is on trial for murder. He has tried to remedy the ineffectiveness of the law by taking matters into his own hands. Unfortunately for him, his alleged crime was not committed in immediate defence of others or of himself. In this fascinat...
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Independent Witness
- May-1989
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All the action in this superb "trial procedural" takes place inside the courtroom. In a series of cross-examinations, lawyers attempt to find a truly independent witness. The varied testimony elicited is often hilarious, sometimes sad, frequently cra...
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The Asking Price
- Dec-1990
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Ronald Holbrook is a fifty-seven year old bachelor who has lived in the same house for twenty years. Jane Doughty, the daughter of his next-door neighbours, is seventeen. She suddenly decides she is in love with Ronald and wants to marry him. Everyon...
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Settled Out of Court
- Oct-1991
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Lonsdale Walsh is a rich financier who is wrongly imprisoned for murder. From his prison cell Lonsdale hatches an intricate plan to stage his own retrial at a secret location. Find out if Lonsdale can secure an acquittal and relish the further unexpe...
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A Woman Named Anne
- May-1993
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Anne, beautiful and intelligent, stands in the dock accused of adultery. Utterly humiliated by hearing the evidence against her, she is determined to put the record straight . But the prosecution does not play the game she had been expecting and she ...
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The Painswick Line
- Nov-2000
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Lucy Meeson-Smith works at a big bookmakers and always manages to back the back winners. Her employers become suspicious and take her to court for fraud. At her trial it is revealed that her father, a vicar, studies form avidly and is a brilliant tip...
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Friends at Court
- Dec-2000
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Roger Thursby is prospering in the legal profession and is about to be made a Queen's Council. In this brilliantly funny sequel to Brothers in Law we follow him through a further series of hilarious legal highs and lows....
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Full Circle
- Dec-2000
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One day a distinguished law professor is involved in an accident and suffers a slight knock on the head. He continues to behave normally in most respects but, instead of delivering lectures, he delights his students by telling them crazy and convolut...
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Much in Evidence
- Dec-2000
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William Richmond is bald and lame. But that is not his only misfortune. On the very night he has £100,000 in his safe, his home is broken into and he is beaten up. His insurance company pays up - but they are highly suspicious. It would appear that ...
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No Bail for the Judge
- Dec-2005
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A dour and highly-respected High Court Judge finds himself on trial for the murder of a prostitute. He has no recollection of the events leading up to the murder so believes he may be guilty. His daughter, however, is convinced of his innocence, so s...
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Without Fear or Favour
- Jul-2007
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‘If everyone had a perfectly clear conscience, the blackmailer would have no chance’. So begins a trial in which the unfortunate judge is himself blackmailed. Unwittingly ‘picked up’ by a ‘respectable-looking girl’ the judge finds himself...
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Brothers in law
Roger Thursby, aged twenty-four, is called to the bar. He is young, inexperienced and his love life is complicated. He blunders his way through a succession of comic adventures including his calamitous debut at the bar. His career takes an upward tur...
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The Buttercup Spell
Imagine a situation where a judge hands out a lenient sentence because he is suddenly filled with love for his fellow man. Think of a world where Trades Union leaders fully support their bosses' high salaries and where policemen hug and kiss drivers ...
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Hunt the Slipper
Harriet and Graham have been happily married for twenty year. One day Graham fails to return home and Harriet begins to realise she has been abandoned. This feeling is strengthened when she starts to receive monthly payments from an untraceable sourc...
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No Fear or Favour
'If everyone had a perfectly clear conscience, the blackmailer would have no chance'. So begins a trial in which the unfortunate judge is himself blackmailed. Unwittingly 'picked up' by a 'respectable-looking girl' the judge finds himself put into an...
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Truth with Her Boots on
Judge Julian Whitehall is a man of the highest moral integrity. He is approaching retirement age but still has a little time to serve. Suddenly, to the enormous surprise of everybody, he retires early. It transpires that an old friend has asked him t...
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Unlawful Occasions
Mrs Vernay and her husband live in a flat above the Chambers of Brian Culsworth Q.C. in the Temple. One day Mrs Vernay receives a visit from a Mr Sampson and she gets the impression that he is a blackmailer. She then immediately seeks advice from Mr...
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The Wanted Man
When Norman Partridge moves to Little Bacon, a pretty country village, he proves to be a kind and helpful neighbour and is liked by everyone. Initially it didn't seem to matter that no one knew anything about his past or how he managed to live so com...
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Ways and Means
When Basil Merridew and his 'nephew', Nicholas Drewe, arrive in the prosperous village of Tapworth Magna their neighbours are unprepared for the upheaval that is to follow. The new arrivals' short period of residence in the village ends when Basil t...