City barristers to hit the screen in new Channel 4 legal documentary

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The UK is reconsidering its plan to sell Channel 4 as well as scrapping the BBC licence fee. 
The UK is reconsidering its plan to sell Channel 4 as well as scrapping the BBC licence fee. 

Barristers from 25 Bedford Row will star in a new show with “unprecedented access” to legal lives.

In a four-part documentary, tentatively named The Defenders, a group of barristers from one of the UK’s top criminal defence chambers will be followed around on their daily lives.

The Defenders will show how the barristers work through cases – on anything from speeding fines and shop lifting to armed robbery and murder – from when they are given a brief to preparing for court and a final verdict.

The series will also go beyond the courts to explore their lives outside the law through families, friendships and hobbies.

Channel 4 plans to air the docu-series in Spring next year.