Eternal Law - Season 1 (2012)

Gemma Manes,whose teenage son Paul was murdered a year earlier,is charged with the manslaughter of Mark Yalling,a stalker who entered her house. She is considered to be a local heroine and Tom,mystified that Mr Mountjoy wants him and Zak to prosecute and not defend Gemma,quits the case. Then Zak gets evidence to suggest that Gemma suspected Yalling of killing her son and was conducting a different agenda to avenge Paul. Once more he breaks the rules by intervening though this effects a bizarre happy ending. Meanwhile Hannah is intrigued that Zak knows so much about ...

Major John Parker asks Zak to represent Private Laura Pearson,charged with attempted desertion after supposedly wounding herself to avoid a tour of duty.Laura's colleague Sophie believes she was stabbed by obnoxious Sergeant Faber for spurning his advances. Zak,with Hannah as his junior, wins his case but not before he has rescued Tom from a minefield and revealed that in a previous life he was the Angel of Mons. Mrs Sheringham,meanwhile,finds romance with her late husband's friend Carl whilst Hannah accepts a date from the handsome major,to Zak's annoyance.

Brothers Marcus and Felix Hale,who took over their father's engineering business,literally come to blows when Marcus is opposed to a contract to make parts for the army,believing it goes against their father's principles. After a third brother Bruno sees Marcus standing over Felix's corpse a charge of murder is brought,with Tom and Zak defending Marcus,who claims the death was an accident and in court Zak manages to prove the exact reason for Felix's demise.Mrs Sheringham rejects Carl on learning that he is working for Richard to get her to betray her angelic lodgers ...