Martin Shaw returns as the free-thinking judge with a reputation for asking difficult questions and refusing to compromise his principles., In the first episode, Deed must deal with corruption within the jury, the suspected murder of a barrister and a case connected to a lucrative Government deal with a foreign country during which finalizing the contract seems to some more important than seeing justice is done. Subsequent episodes raise other important questions of justice: a man with the mental age of 13 on trial for murder; the uncovering of a massive mortgage fraud perpetrated by lawyers with the connivance of a judge; children accused of conspiring to murder their parents; and the rights of a 15-year-old boy refusing a heart transplant.