First broadcast 16th December 1975.
An irreverent barrister chooses to defend a young Jamaican boy accused of stabbing on the same day his only son leaves for college in America.
Leo McKern ... Horace Rumpole
Joyce Heron ... Hilda Rumpole
Noel Willman ... Mr. Justice Bates
David Yelland ... Nick Rumpole
Herbert Norville ... Ossie Gladstone - The Defendant
Artro Morris ... Mr. Winter
George Sweeney ... Jo
John Byron ... George
Vernon Dobtcheff ... Magnus Piecan
Edwin Brown ... Detective Inspector Arthur
Paul Greenhalgh ... Rev. Eldred Pickersgill
Peter Spraggon ... Prison Officer
Tommy Wright ... Man in Cell
Sarah Thomas ... Grace
Eric Hillyard ... Court Usher
Olga Lowe ... Barmaid / Waitress
Richard Wardale ... Young Barrister
John Beardmore ... Court Clerk
Douglas Auchterlonie ... Jury
Jonathan Keays ... Jury
Doris Kitts ... Jury
Fran Pomeroy ... Jury
Lionel Wheeler ... Jury
Martin Kemp ... Lad
