Kavanagh QC (TV Series) Briefs Trooping Gaily (1998) User Reviews

"Briefs Trooping Gaily"

[TheLittleSongbird · 9/10 · 16 April 2010]

A very good Kavanagh episode that benefits from good acting mainly. John Thaw is excellent as Kavanagh and Nicolas Jones is also good as Jeremy Aldermarten, whose serves as the source of the episode's subplot. Valerie Edmund is sweet as Emma, Rebecca Front is suitably sincere as Kathy Winslow and Lynda Steadman is outstanding as the woman accused of killing her violent husband. The music is beautiful, with its poignant piano theme, and I loved hearing Trial By Jury. The production values, script and direction are also excellent as I would come to expect from this series.

Overall, very good episode if not a direct favourite. 9/10 Bethany Cox

Trial by jury

[safenoe · 8/10 · 2 December 2023]

This episode of Kavanagh, Q. C. features the singing talents of Nicholas Jones who plays Jeremy and stars in Trial by Jury by Gilbert and Sullivan which is a big deal for him. Also Jeremy himself is caught up in a disciplinary matter because he accidentally looked at a defence lawyer's papers (brief) which is a grave matter indeed.

James Kavanagh tries to move on as he struggles with the death of his wife (played by Lisa Harrow). I'm enjoying watching Kavanagh after having first watched it in the late 90s. This is solid British legal drama that deals with issues on a mature way and which makes you think.

Briefs Trooping Gaily

[Prismark10 · 6/10 · 29 June 2022]

By the time of the fourth series. You can sense how much different it looks from when it began.

Kavanagh is alone but perseveres to the best for his clients. This now includes Jeremy Aldermarten.

He ended up picking defence brief by mistake and a fussy barrister has reported him to the Bar Council.

Kavanagh also has to defend Elaine Sturmer, a vulnerable woman who snapped and stabbed her abusive husband.

Driven with guilt she suddenly changes her plea at trial. It leave Kavanagh with a uphill battle as he was hoping to get a manslaughter verdict.

It is a case of balancing the light and shade with the two case Kavanagh had to deal with a sprinkling of Gilbert and Sullivan.

The case relating to Elaine Sturmer was more interesting especially as it turned out that she has been left pregnant. There is the implication by the prosecution that she was happy to sleep with her so called abusive husband. Maybe real life does not work like that.