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The stage is the [[British Courts|Old
But hey, at least the lawyers are making a bundle.
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* [[Acquitted Too
* [[All Crimes Are Equal]]: Not quite, but the series does take place in the time of the infamous "[[wikipedia:Bloody Code|Bloody
* [[Aristocrats Are Evil]]: Lord Melville and the Earl of Sandwich are just two examples.
* [[Arranged
* [[Beauty Mark]]: The actress playing Lady Sarah has one, but despite the fact that 18th Century ladies would often used felt or makeup to fake them, because having them was so fashionable, it is never remarked upon in the series.
* [[Big Fancy
* [[Birds of a
** "We are of a common mind about this world."
* [[British
* [[But I Would Really Enjoy
* [[Character
* [[Deadpan
** "Are you familiar with the phenomenon of cutlery?"
* [[Defeat Means Friendship]]: [[Discussed Trope|discussed]] and then [[Defied Trope|defied]] by Garrow after his duel with Silvester.
* [[Eternal Sexual
* [[Good Lawyers, Good
* [[Gorgeous Period
* [[Hanging
* [[Historical Domain
* [[Historical Hero
* [[Huge Guy, Tiny Girl]]: Andrew Buchan is over six feet tall, while Lyndsey Marshal is pocket-sized. The result is that Garrow towers over Lady Sarah, even when she's wearing her most ginormous hat.
* [[I Want My Beloved to Be
** "I wish you well in your happiness."
* [[Incurable Cough of Death]] - {{spoiler|Southouse falls ill with "prison fever" (contracted from visits to Newgate Gaol) in Season 3, Episode 2, and dies in the following episode.}}
* [[Infant
* [[Inherent in the
* [[
* [[Kangaroo
* [[Race For Your
* [[Recycled in
* [[Sadistic
** There's another example in Series 3, where the nobleman sponsoring Lady Sarah's husband promises to force him to hand over her son - just as long as Garrow doesn't use his current case to condemn the even worse judicial system of Britain's overseas colonies.
* [[Stock
* [[Unresolved Sexual
** "No, I have not THAT fever"
** The scene where she hands him a glass of water in court. Pure eye sex.
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** The exemplar: Garrow defends a slimeball who raped his maid by quietly gaining the girl's confidence on the stand, and then paiting her to the jury as "a strumpet and a drunk." He handily wins the case, and we see that he feels guilty about it. Not as guilty as he does after Lady Sarah lays the verbal smackdown on him for it.
*** He follows this idiocy up with a decision he himself later calls "rash" and "asinine," and the other characters, along with the writer himself, take great pains to show how stupid he's being, and to make him pay for it.
* [[Wide-Eyed
** He gets his [[Break the
* [[Very Loosely Based on a True
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