Trial By Judge (Michael Hardwick) (British Drama)

'Sir Evelyn Hampton was nearly eighty years of age, and this was his last case. To Sir Evelyn himself, his retirement stood for the relinquishment of responsibility; to his son Andrew it seemed the laying down of power like the Power of God.'

The story is set before 1907. An 80-year-old judge, widely respected as "the prisoner's friend" and now about to retire, On his last case, a murder trial, deliberately misleads the jury. Not from malice. but in order to draw public attention to the injustice of having no court of appeal. Such a court was in fact set up later.

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