Season 1

Once a national hero in Britain, Sir Roger Casement, an Irishman, is tried for treason during the First World War.

An account of the notorious "Tranby Croft affair", which threatened to envelop the Prince of Wales in a gambling scandal.

After the fall of Minorca, a British admiral is tried for cowardice.

A seventeenth-century lawyer is tried for the murder of a Quaker woman.

The controversial writer Oscar Wilde is tried for gross indecency after his libel suit against the Marquess of Queensberry has failed.

An eminent Victorian political figure is involved in a sex scandal.

A man is accused of impersonating an aristocrat to gain his fortune.

A newspaperman arranges for himself to be arrested on a morals charge so that he can use the witness-box to expose the white slave traffic.

An Irishman is, after serving as a governor in an African colony, accused of two murders when he returns to Britain.

A member of Parliament is accused of perpetrating a swindle.