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13 Episodes 2004 - 2004
Episode 1
It's Alice's first day on the job and her boss is nowhere to be seen. She's in over her head with name misspellings, family battles and public mischief. With a little advice from defence lawyer Elliot Sacks and duty counsel Zona Robinson, Alice manages to squeak through the day.
Episode 2
Alice's first trip into Mental Health Court teaches her how hard it is for the justice system to help the mentally ill. Elliot tries to help a one-legged Jamaican man arrested for attacking the neighbourhood girls who routinely taunt him.
Episode 3
Elliot deals with a spoiled client and his flaky girlfriend, while Alice struggles to convince the Crown to have compassion for a former drug addict and a suspected terrorist.
Episode 4
Judge Malone wages war against the City of Toronto and Alice has doubts about her clients innocence.
Episode 5
Alice tries to convince a couple to make a sacrifice for the sake of their family. Elliot finds himself defending a secretary who hogties her boss to fake a robbery.
Episode 6
Alice's client is charged with abusing and neglecting his sick father. Alice also represents a 65-year old crack addict who is not interested in being rehabilitated. Elliot uses all of his creativity to defend a high profile client.
Episode 7
Alice balances two clients, Elliot wars with the Crown's rigid approach to sexual assault cases, Anthony defends a woman charged with assaulting her lesbian lover and new Duty Counsel Joe Pretak finds himself grappling with four Asian co-accused.
Episode 8
Alice deals with a case involving racism while also battling a media circus surrounding a child abduction case. Meanwhile, James and Nancy are confounded by the court's rigid approach to domestic abuse cases.
Episode 9
Joe tries to get a career criminal one last chance. Homeless intellectual Mr. Jackson appears before the colourful Judge Malcolm Fraser. Elliot stretches his already-battered legal objectivity to the limit.
Episode 10
Episode 11
Alice defends a girl just out of high school on drug-trafficking charges. Saxe's client is charged with leaving his business partner in an embarrassing situation. James goes camping.
Episode 12
Alice's cases include a potentially abusive father and a woman who struck her mother-in-law. Sacks defends a man accused of beating up a poet.
Episode 13