First broadcast 17th April 1978.
An MP is accused of raping one of his assistants, and seems reluctant to defend himself.
Leo McKern ... Horace Rumpole
Peggy Thorpe-Bates ... Hilda Rumpole
David Yelland ... Nick Rumpole
Deborah Fallender ... Erica Rumpole
Anton Rodgers ... Ken Aspen
Judy Parfitt ... Anna Aspen
Elizabeth Romilly ... Bridget Evans
Peter Bowles ... Guthrie Featherstone
Julian Curry ... Claude Erskine-Brown
Moray Watson ... George Frobisher
Derek Benfield ... Albert Handyside
Jonathan Coy ... Henry
Richard Murdoch ... Uncle Tom
Noel Johnson ... Judge Sam Parkin
Reginald Marsh ... Mr Myers
Peter Whitaker ... Jack Pomeroy
Maureen Darbyshire ... Dianne
Sandra Freeman ... Janice Crowshott
Lee Fox ... Prosecuting Counsel
Hugh Martin ... Usher
