The Barristers Episode Guide

Episode Guide

• Season 1 Episode 4: EPISODE: 4

  Newly qualified barrister Kakoly Pande faces her first crown court case, which involves assault and battery. Meanwhile, there is a judgement in the House of Lords after seven years and the Bar has to face criticisms that it is elitist, outdated and old-fashioned. Last in the series

• Season 1 Episode 3: EPISODE: 3

  A law student hopes her low-paid apprenticeship at a set of barristers' chambers will lead to a permanent job, but faces competition. Meanwhile, a new CPS-employed barrister prosecutes her first murder case in the Old Bailey in this role, and the cameras go behind the scenes at the trial to follow her preparations and examine the effects proceedings have on the victim's family

• Season 1 Episode 2: EPISODE: 2

  A Birmingham divorce lawyer brokers a financial settlement, and her colleagues in family law investigate the case of a child with a fractured skull. Meanwhile, the students have their first interviews for training contracts in a set of barristers' chambers

• Season 1 Episode 1: EPISODE: 1

  Documentary following students aspiring to join the Bar and hearing about the ups and downs of the job from practising barristers. The profession produces prime ministers, millionaires and the judges who shape the law, but out of the thousands who train to become barristers each year, only one in five succeeds. The first episode meets four students competing to get a pupillage and a barrister who is prosecuting a case in the Birmingham race riot trials