Criminal Justice (2008)
Series 1 follows Ben Coulter who is accused of committing a crime that he has no recollection of after a drunken and drug-filled night out. Series 2 follows Juliet through the criminal justice system after she stabs her abusive husband.
Cast: Ben Whishaw, Maxine Peake, Bill Paterson, Alice Sykes, Con O'Neill, Juliet Aubrey, Rupert Procter, Zoe Telford, Joe Dixon, David Westhead, Denis Lawson, Steven Mackintosh, Kate Hardie, Sophie Okonedo, Nadine Marshall, Eddie Marsan, Pete Postlethwaite, Pooky Quesnel, Jaye Griffiths, Ruth Negga, David Harewood, Nicholas Farrell, Vineeta Rishi, John Hodgkinson, Madeleine Rakic-Platt, Ian Peck, Sam Alexander, Richenda Carey, Johann Myers, Darrell D'Silva, Craig Gazey, Bradley Gardner, Daren Elliott Holmes, Blondell Taylor, Clara Onyemere, Matthew Macfadyen, Ike Hamilton, Warren Brown, Adam Deacon, Garry Cooper, Michael Cochrane, Guy Henry, Lindsay Duncan, Charlie Creed-Miles, Marie-France Alvarez, Seroca Davis, Ony Uhiara, David Annen, Alan McKenna, Marsali Stewart, Hugh Hayes, Grant Russell, Tom Knight, Jodie McNee, Dominic Letts, Keeley Forsyth, Luke de Woolfson, Helen Griffin, Christian Roe, Clare Burt, Naomi Capron, Toby Alexander, Uriel Emil, Davood Ghadami, Judy Norman, Daniel Betts, Jake Curran, Helen Schlesinger
Episode 5
Juliet eventually takes the stand and starts to be more forthcoming. She points out that whilst her second pregnancy was not the result of a rape Joe had sexual demands and would bully her into intercourse, punishing her if she refused. She had the knife under the pillow for her own protection but did not intend to murder him.
Episode 4
With the trial a week away Alice tells Jack the defence case is weak. After a visit from Ella to see the new baby, Juliet finally admits to Jack about her husband's control and abuse and says she will tell the court, for Ella's sake.Jack also hopes to use Joe's possible involvement with a drug pusher, though Chris Sexton disproves this to his own satisfaction.
Episode 3
Juliet has a baby girl. Jack and colleague Alice tell her the outcome of the trial will determine whether she can keep her. Flo questions Ella with her Inspector husband Chris, whom Flo accuses of grooming Ella to be hostile to her mother. Joe's clerk Saul tells Faber Joe was a saint, but Mrs.Rose believes Juliet was dominated by him and recalls miscalled phone messages from her on the night of the stabbing. Then Juliet's cell-mate Angela kills herself.
Episode 2
Remanded in prison Juliet tells Jack that she was on anti-depressants but stopped them unbeknown to her controlling husband. She is pregnant. Ella is fostered with the Roses, parents of a school friend and social worker Norma Fredericks wonders if the placement should not be long-term,due to Juliet's 'violence'. Ella visits Juliet, to be told,"I did it for you" but rejects her mother. Joe dies, making the charge murder.
Episode 1
Juliet Miller lives an outwardly comfortable life with her barrister husband Joe and thirteen-year-old daughter Ella. But Joe regularly subjects Juliet to sexual violence and one night she stabs him, calmly phoning the ambulance to say "he's hurt" and walking away.