Garrow's Law - Episode Guide

After losing his first case to his nemesis, young, idealistic barrister William Garrow is instructed to defend a helpless serving girl accused of murdering her baby.

William Garrow, now a celebrated barrister, defends a man accused of being the infamous Monster, responsible for a series of stabbings of young ladies across London.

Garrow's defence of the detestable Edgar Cole disappoints Lady Sarah. Silvester's insinuation of an intimacy with Lady Sarah leads Garrow to challenge him to a duel.

Garrow wins the case of a prostitute accused of murdering her client. A desperate Mary Hamer arrives, begging for Garrow to defend her husband Joseph.

When 133 African prisoners are thrown overboard from a slave ship in suspicious circumstances, Garrow challenges the brutal trade that regards slaves as cargo. It is a case that amounts to a declaration of war.

Garrow defends a man accused of sodomy, a capital offence in Georgian England. But Garrow is embroiled in a simmering sexual scandal of his own - Sir Arthur Hill has accused him of adultery with his wife. In representing an accused homosexual, Garrow risks gossip and humiliation. And, it turns out, he must also perpetuate a lie.

Returning from war, weary and wounded, British sailors are treated with contempt and abuse at the Greenwich Hospital. One man bravely exposes the corruption, and finds himself in a Newgate cell. Southouse accuses Garrow of mixed motives as his uses the case to attack The Admiralty - and in particular its Under Secretary, Sir Arthur Hill.

Garrow finds himself in the dock, accused by Sir Arthur Hill of 'criminal conversation' of adultery with his wife Sarah. The evidence against him is a combination of half truths, invention and bare-faced lies - but with a moralistic judge and a censorious public, mere truth may not be enough. Garrow must fight for his honour, for his future, and for love.

Pioneering eighteenth century barrister William Garrow returns to the Bailey to champion the rights of prisoners. Based on the true story of James Hadfield - accused of attempting to assassinate King George III - Garrow risks his reputation to defend the indefensible. And he changes British law forever.

Two men accused of destroying silk looms in an act of industrial sabotage cower in the dock; their defence is perilously thin. Garrow must persuade a sceptical jury of their innocence. Love and loyalty compete with fear and betrayal in the brutal surroundings of the 18th-century Bailey.

Garrow is confronted with an impossible choice: to expose British colonial brutality in open court, or to re-unite Lady Sarah with her son. The dangerously ill Southouse intervenes, and Garrow is forced to decide. Love or honour? It cannot be both.

A vicious riot erupts on polling day in the Westminster constituency. As the crowd parts, an old man lies on the ground, brutally clubbed to death. Garrow, alone and grieving, gets pulled into a complex web of conspiracy and cover-up, of political double-dealing and the abuse of power.