Newton's Law

2017 • Australian Broadcasting Corporation
4.8
6 reviews
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Season 1 episodes (10)

1 External Forces
2/9/17
Season-only
After the brilliant but beleaguered Josephine Newton finds her office set alight, seemingly by a disgruntled client, she agrees to return to the Bar, only to discover that she must defend an associate accused of murder – and she has just joined the victim's chambers.
2 The Butterfly Effect
2/16/17
Season-only
Josephine takes the lead in a gender dysphoria case, while downstairs Helena defends Josephine's daughter against a criminal damage charge.
3 Control Theory
2/23/17
Season-only
Josephine and Lewis inherit a murder trial where all the evidence points to their client having clobbered the victim with a dumbbell, while Johnny and Skye are reluctantly thrown together to help defend Skye's father from an assault charge involving a decimated rose bush.
4 Uniform Motion
3/2/17
Season-only
Josephine worries she's crossed over to the dark side when representing a furniture conglomerate, but manages to assist the underdog downstairs in a case that is more about athletic competition than racism.
5 of Cooling
3/9/17
Season-only
Josephine is surprised that Whitley wants her to represent him in a property dispute, and the downstairs team make their own discoveries in what is ostensibly a simple assault case.
6 The Uncertainty Principle
3/16/17
Season-only
Josephine's asylum seeker kidnapping case is further complicated when Callum impersonates a government official, landing Josephine's witness, and himself, in hot water.
7 Terminal Velocity
3/23/17
Season-only
Josephine discovers that her pyromaniac ex-client didn't burn down her solicitor's office, while Lewis' defence of a sneaker thief – the son of a wealthy and absent friend – unearths a troubling drug link between the boy and her sister, Rose.
8 Equal & Opposite Forces
3/30/17
Season-only
The upstairs and downstairs teams join forces in a class action, taking on a pharmaceutical company that tried to cover up the side effects resulting from their drug trials.
101 Meet the Ensemble
2/9/17
Season-only
Producer Fiona Eagger introduces some of the large ensemble of cast from "Newton's Law" including Brett Tucker, Miranda Tapsell, Andrew McFarlane and Jane Hall.
102 In Court with Newton's Law
2/9/17
Season-only
Legal & Story Consultant Hilary Bonney from "Newton's Law" discusses the layout and roles within the courtroom.

About this show

Meet Josephine Newton (Claudia Karvan, Puberty Blues). Smart, sassy and unapologetically obligated to do the right thing, she's convinced by a seductive former colleague to make a return to her briefly glorious stint at the Bar after her small solicitor's practice goes up in smoke at the hands of a disgruntled client.

Ratings and reviews

4.8
6 reviews
SED EN
May 30, 2017
A great show that has inspired me to try harder in public speaking.
David Brodsky
August 4, 2020
There really needs to be another season of this at least. Not sure what happened to those plans...