Series 1, Episode 1 · The Prodigal Returns
Probate and inheritance: Peter mediates between two brothers after their mother’s death while Sidney challenges a proposed road.
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Probate and inheritance: Peter mediates between two brothers after their mother’s death while Sidney challenges a proposed road.
Read the complete episode guide →Family and employment questions collide when an Estonian woman asks Peter to recover the baby she says her former employer took.
Read the complete episode guide →Peter and Lyle challenge an insurer after a fishing boat explodes, complicated by the owner’s previous fraud conviction.
Read the complete episode guide →A family considers action against Cambridge University after their daughter is refused a place.
Read the complete episode guide →Peter advises a married couple after the wife discovers her husband wears women’s clothes; Lyle becomes uneasy about the side he represents in a dispute involving travellers.
Read the complete episode guide →An elderly Holocaust survivor faces eviction, giving Lyle a case that changes how he sees his future in Market Shipborough.
Read the complete episode guide →Peter’s cases connect an injured dog, a threatened lighthouse and rival burger vans as the new series re-establishes Market Shipborough.
Read the complete episode guide →Peter advises on a disputed relationship between an older man and his younger nurse while questions of capacity, affection and family interest overlap.
Read the complete episode guide →Peter and Lyle investigate the identity of an American serviceman after a pregnant woman asks for help contacting him.
Read the complete episode guide →A cricket captain faces a sponsorship dispute while Lyle represents an outspoken local campaigner.
Read the complete episode guide →A Cambridge professor asks Peter and Simon to recover missing scientific research; Lyle handles a father-and-son motor-business dispute.
Read the complete episode guide →A storm frames Aunt Auriel’s retirement-home production of The Tempest while Simon prepares to escape the people pursuing him.
Read the complete episode guide →Peter seeks fairer compensation for a soldier injured in Iraq; Lyle challenges sex discrimination involving the Blues and Royals.
Read the complete episode guide →A farmer asks Peter to investigate crop circles while Lyle opposes a compulsory purchase order threatening a family home.
Read the complete episode guide →Lyle helps Nigel Pearson defend a convent community facing eviction while Peter mediates between a medical researcher and her daughter.
Read the complete episode guide →A judge believes he is being blackmailed, while Lyle represents druids opposing a golf course they say disrupts ley lines.
Read the complete episode guide →Lyle returns to Stockport to oppose development on allotments; Peter handles a dispute involving a young cellist.
Read the complete episode guide →Peter helps an aristocrat worried about his brother’s drug use while Lyle investigates pollution in a river.
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