Forget the Office of Fair Trading’s attack on the Bar’s cherished practices, or solicitor advocates, or the current slump in the amount of cases being heard at the High Court. A far more insidious threat to the Bar will arrive on the nation’s television screens in the next couple of weeks in the form of Trust – the new prime time BBC1 series about life in a City law firm.
The show stars male heart-throb Robson Green, Sarah Parish and Ian McShane, of Lovejoy fame, and revolves around life at a fictional City law firm. We are promised a lively, fast-paced and witty series along the lines of the US triumvirate of Ally McBeal, LA Law and The West Wing.
