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Kavanagh Q.C.
1995 - 1999 7.0 (7 votes) 5 Seasons
Genres
Crime Drama
Networks
ITV1
Created By
Ted Childs

Kavanagh Q.C.

Overview

James Kavanagh QC is one of the top flight barristers in Britain. Each episode has him handling challenging cases and defendants which put his skills to the test regularly.

Key Crew

Producer: Ted Childs

Top Cast

John Thaw
John Thaw

James Kavanagh QC

Nicholas Jones
Nicholas Jones

Jeremy Aldermarten QC

Oliver Ford Davies
Oliver Ford Davies

Peter Foxcott QC

Lisa Harrow
Lisa Harrow

Lizzie Kavanagh

Cliff Parisi
Cliff Parisi

Tom Buckley

Daisy Bates
Daisy Bates

Kate Kavanagh

John Carlisle
John Carlisle

Judge Trafford

Anna Chancellor
Anna Chancellor

Julia Piper

Seasons

Season 2 poster
Season 2 (1996)

No overview available.

6 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: True Commitment
1996-02-26

The daughter of a wealthy Jewish businessman and her boyfriend plan to murder a member of the neo-Nazi opposition. They are successful in killing a 17-year-old skinhead at a demonstration, yet when Mark, the boyfriend, is arrested, he claims the killing was an accident. Meanwhile, the Kavanagh's home life is abruptly ruffled by the news that Kate, an undergraduate at Cambridge, is having an affair with her married tutor.

Runtime: 76 min
Episode 2: Men of Substance
1996-03-04

Kavanagh is forced to replace the prosecutor who suffers a heart attack while on a Customs case involving the importation of drugs from Holland.

Runtime: 75 min
Episode 3: The Burning Deck
1996-03-11

Kavanagh represents the son of a Vice Admiral charged with arson. Despite his best efforts, the court finds Kavanagh's client guilty. The truth of the matter, however, turns out to be more complex. Meanwhile, the Kavanagh children organize a surprise anniversary party for their parents

Runtime: 76 min
Episode 4: A Sense of Loss
1996-03-19

What appears to be a open and shut case in the murder of a young policewoman turns out not to be what it initially seems under cross examination.

Runtime: 76 min
Episode 5: A Stranger in the Family
1996-03-26

Even though he has not done a personal injury case for 20 years, Kavanagh is chosen as the leader in a case against a Thames River Recycling Centre, whose employee sustained spinal and brain damage from being struck by a swinging container. Meanwhile at home, Kavanagh's son besieges him with a plot to buy him a car.

Runtime: 76 min
Episode 6: Job Satisfaction
1996-04-02

The son and daughter of a prosperous farmer are charged with the murder of their father and stepmother. A planted shotgun seems to provide the only evidence linking them to the gruesome killings. Kavanagh represents the daughter and loses the case, but in the appeal Kavanagh convinces the court that judicial errors were made in the original trial and his client is released.

Runtime: 76 min
Season 3 poster
Season 3 (1997)

No overview available.

6 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Mute of Malice
1997-03-03

Kavanagh defends a client who has become mute after announcing that he has killed his brother.

Runtime: 76 min
Episode 2: Blood Money
1997-03-10

When surgeon Hilary Jameson successfully operates on a computer tycoon involved in a car accident, she has every reason to suppose he'll survive. Within a matter of minutes, however, the patient's wife learns that he is dead. What happened in that brief period? This is the problem Kavanagh must solve when he prosecutes on behalf of the widow.

Runtime: 76 min
Episode 3: Ancient History
1997-03-17

Kavanagh prosecutes an apparently blameless family doctor in an unprecedented war crime trial. The court hears devastating testimony as victims of Nazi atrocities re-live their experiences in concentration camps, but it's left to a witness for the defence to reveal the final truth.

Runtime: 76 min
Episode 4: Diplomatic Baggage
1997-03-24

Kavanagh discovers how dark the corridors of power can be when he defends the daughter of a British ambassador on a charge of murdering an Austrian journalist. Meanwhile, Kavanagh's son moves into a squat.

Runtime: 75 min
Episode 5: The Ties That Bind
1997-04-07

Kavanagh fights for justice on behalf of a young man brutally killed, in a rare private prosecution for murder. The odds, however, are against him, since there are powerful reasons for the truth to be kept hidden.

Runtime: 76 min
Episode 6: In God We Trust
1997-04-14

Driven by a desire for justice, and to help his former colleague Julia Piper, now married to an American lawyer, Kavanagh flies to the US to assist with the appeal of a convicted murderer on Florida's death row.

Runtime: 76 min
Season 4 poster
Season 4 (1998)

No overview available.

6 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Memento Mori
1998-03-17

Kavanagh defends a doctor accused of murdering his wife. Although the prosecution has several witnesses who provide evidence, the accused maintains his innocence. After the verdict, however, Kavanagh learns of an ironic twist.

Runtime: 76 min
Episode 2: Care in the Community
1998-03-24

Kavanagh heads to his hometown of Bolton to defend a man who, together with his partner, is accused of murdering their 14-month-old daughter. Kavanagh's tactics have to change however when it becomes clear that the young couple are telling quite different stories.

Runtime: 76 min
Episode 3: Briefs Trooping Gaily
1998-03-31

Kavanagh defends a woman accused of killing her husband. Although she admits to killing him for repeatedly beating her, Kavanagh urges her not to admit it in court. Meanwhile,a colleague of Kavanagh's asks him to represent him before the Conduct Committee when he's accused of looking at the wrong brief.

Runtime: 75 min
Episode 4: Bearing Witness
1998-04-07

Kavanagh represents a Jehovah's Witness mother when a hospital wants her 13-year-old son to have a blood transfusion that will save his life. When the mother refuses, Luke is made a ward of court and the hospital seeks judicial permission to go ahead with the transfusion. The hospital wins its action, and Luke is given a transfusion.

Runtime: 76 min
Episode 5: The Innocency of Life
1998-04-14

Kavanagh is asked to defend a Reverend accused of sexual harassment by a recently widowed parishioner. When Kavanagh begins to make inquiries regarding the death of the victim's husband, she mysteriously withdraws her complaint against the Reverend and the case collapses. Later Kavanagh discovers that she has become engaged to the vicar and finds himself defending her against charges that she murdered her husband.

Runtime: 75 min
Episode 6: Dead Reckoning
1998-04-21

When a trawler sinks off the coast of North Yorkshire, taking the lives of five people, an enquiry establishes that the boat was in disrepair. Kavanagh is on the team prosecuting the boat owner and father of one of the victims, charged with five counts of manslaughter. He must counter the owner's defence that a Royal Navy submarine surfaced near the trawler and capsized her.

Runtime: 76 min

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