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The Law Lord

1992★ 9.0 · 11h 30mDramaThrillerTV Movie

Overview

A new government takes power with a drastically reduced majority. But the ambitious young Home Secretary has a plan to bring the legal establishment to heel and bypass Parliament altogether. Anthony Andrews says of writer and barrister John Cooper (who wrote the ITV series The Advocates): "John is writing about a world he knows intimately. It is a most original and exciting screenplay and extremely prescient in view of the current controversies surrounding the judiciary." Producer Simon Passmore Director Jim Goddard

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Cast

Bernard Hill
as Martin Allport

Tom Baker
as Sir Lionel Sweeting

Anthony Andrews
as Christopher Edwardes

George Harris
as John Nixon

Daniel Ryan
as Animal Activist

Ellie Beaven
as Rachel Edwardes

Roger Brierley
as Mr Justice Wellbeck

Robert Swann
as Alan Mountford

John Stratton
as Mr Justice Braxton

Richard Bebb
as Lord Chief Justice Hipwood

T. P. McKenna
as Judge Selwyn

Duncan Bell
as Dorking