The Brief - Episode Guide

Good-natured but unconventional barrister Henry Farmer takes on an unwinnable murder case as his life falls apart around him. Saddled with alimony and gambling debts, he is tempted into taking on too much work by his scheming senior clerk Ray Scanlon.

Henry Farmer's search for truth and justice has him risking a misconduct charge when he takes up the cause of obsessive father Costas Nicolaou who is convinced his daughter was raped and murdered at a party in the Far East. Henry's love affair with Polly is complicated by an unexpectedly friendly meeting with her MP husband, and his working relationship with beautiful solicitor Amena Laing.

Farmer has doubts about his prosecution of a twelve year old gypsy girl for murder and takes custody of his son while his ex-wife vacations.

Polly leaves her husband; Henry takes an appeal of a man involved in a sex triangle; Henry faces off with Cleo Steyn.

Defense attorney Henry Farmer knows all about train wrecks: his love life has derailed, and his financial situation has crashed, leaving him temporarily homeless. Now he must deal with his own father as a witness in the trial of a train driver.

Henry's newest client, a sufferer Asperger's syndrome accused of murdering his mother, may be the only habitually honest person involved in the case. Revelations of adultery and a suspicious bruise complicate matters almost as much as Henry's own life.

Henry defends a nurse accused of murdering an elderly patient who added her to his will two day before his death. Unfortunately, she's determined to speak out and clear her name no matter what Henry says.

With almost no evidence in hand, Henry's case against an accused rapist falls to pieces, and the civil action he takes up on behalf of the victim tears his life apart. Couch surfing and fiscally reeling, he is unprepared to see his father is seriously ill.