When I left high school. It came to light in the summer break that one of the female students in our year was going out with the deputy head.
I presume the relationship started after she left school. It did not seemed to have hindered his career. He went on to become a headmaster!
A different time you might say. Drama teacher Ronald Ransom (Nigel Havers) certainly hopes so. He has been charged for having sexual relationships with one of his pupils, even though she was a few weeks shy of her sixteenth birthday.
Rumpole hopes to get him to plead guilty if Ransom serves no prison time. Judge Frobisher an old friend of Rumpole is having none of it. So it goes to a criminal trial.
Rumpole discovers that a fellow pupil who did not like Ransom might have got the schoolgirl to make a complaint.
Meanwhile Guthrie Featherstone wants everyone in the chambers to play happy families to boost his chances in becoming a judge.
It is hard to be sympathetic towards Ransom. He did abuse his position and here he also turned out to be naive.
As for Featherstone's subplot. It was rather dull and wasted the story regarding Miss Trant getting pregnant. Although she and Erskine Brown did get a happy ending.
I presume the relationship started after she left school. It did not seemed to have hindered his career. He went on to become a headmaster!
A different time you might say. Drama teacher Ronald Ransom (Nigel Havers) certainly hopes so. He has been charged for having sexual relationships with one of his pupils, even though she was a few weeks shy of her sixteenth birthday.
Rumpole hopes to get him to plead guilty if Ransom serves no prison time. Judge Frobisher an old friend of Rumpole is having none of it. So it goes to a criminal trial.
Rumpole discovers that a fellow pupil who did not like Ransom might have got the schoolgirl to make a complaint.
Meanwhile Guthrie Featherstone wants everyone in the chambers to play happy families to boost his chances in becoming a judge.
It is hard to be sympathetic towards Ransom. He did abuse his position and here he also turned out to be naive.
As for Featherstone's subplot. It was rather dull and wasted the story regarding Miss Trant getting pregnant. Although she and Erskine Brown did get a happy ending.